The UN High-level Panel Report and the Proposed Institutional Reform of the UN: Would the UN be ready to face the New Challenges?

Abstract

Introduction The report of 29 november 2004 by the un secretary General’s High-level Panel on the Threats, Challenges and Change, entitled “a more secure world: Our shared responsibility,” examined publicly1 the new era in which the un has to function and how the understanding of the concept of security has broadened from the un’s inception in 1945. Today, a more holistic view of collective security includes within its scope poverty, diseases, failed states, terrorism, and environmental degradation. The Panel also studied the institutional adaptability of the un towards these new challenges, suggesting urgent reforms in some institutions to make the un more effective. some recommendations are innovative, radical or debatable, such as the proposed changes to the security Council and the un Commission on Human rights, and the proposed creation of a Peace Building Commission, which are the focus of the present contribution.