A NEW UNITED NATIONS:
How Will We Fix the UN?
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Fixing The United Nations
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Ready to dive deeper? You've gotten a solid introduction to UN reform and humanity's existential threats. Now it's time to explore the full scope of what's possible when we redesign global governance.
People have been working on these problems for decades. They've written entire books, conducted detailed research, and developed innovative solutions. As humanity approaches a UN Charter Convention, we will not have to start from scratch - a lot of incredible work has already been done. The Human Survival Project promotes the best of these ideas, and helps citizens around the world understand them.
Your Learning Journey
Start with our podcast.
The Human Survival Podcast gives you in-depth conversations with some of the smartest people working on humanity’s existential threats and on UN reform. Each episode builds your understanding of both the problems and solutions.
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Explore the broader movement.
You're joining a global community of people working to transform how humanity governs itself. The organizations below have been developing solutions for years—now we're building the public pressure to make those solutions happen.
Essential Resources
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Global Governance Forum
Develops comprehensive proposals for redesigning the United Nations, with a focus on the urgency of modern global threats. They've done something remarkable: assembled experts to draft a completely new UN Charter for the world to consider. It's worth reading.
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New proposed UN Charter: A detailed blueprint for what the UN could become
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Free books:
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Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century, edited by Richard Falk and Augusto Lopez-Claros. 2024.
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Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century by Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl and Maja Groff. 2020.
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Article 109
Article 109 is an international coalition doing something exciting: actively mobilizing governments to invoke Article 109 of the UN Charter—the provision that allows member states to call a General Conference to review and update the Charter. This is the very mechanism The Human Survival Project is working toward. Their coalition brings together former ambassadors and UN officials, seasoned campaigners, academics, and nearly 100 civil society organizations from around the world. World leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America have joined their call, alongside Nobel Laureates and heads of government past and present. Article 109 works primarily at the government and policy level—engaging diplomats, officials, and institutions. The Human Survival Project focuses on mobilizing everyday citizens around the world to demand change. These two efforts need each other.
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Why UN Charter review? A clear explanation of the problem and the solution
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Support and momentum: World leaders calling for Charter renewal, in their own words
Stimson Center
Promotes international security and shared prosperity through applied research and independent analysis, global engagement, and policy innovation.
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Global Governance Innovation Network: Collaborative project bringing together multiple organizations
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Resources on strengthening global governance
Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN)
A global platform of civil society organizations committed to creating a stronger, more effective, and more accountable United Nations system. Established in 2017, C4UN brings together more than 7,000 individuals and organizations from all regions and sectors to strengthen civil society engagement in UN reform and global governance renewal.
Better World Campaign
Promotes a strong relationship between the United States and the United Nations. Their site does a great job highlighting the important work the UN already does. Start with their "UN, Explained" section.
IPI Global Observatory
Provides timely analysis on multilateralism, peacekeeping, climate action, and related topics. Published by the International Peace Institute.
Good starting places:
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“How UN80 Can Reform the UN for a Volatile, Uncertain World” (June 2026)
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“Reforming the UN Won’t Get the US to Pay, but It’s Still Worth Doing” (May 2026)
International Crisis Group
The Crisis Group’s Richard Gowan, their Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy, produces insightful reporting on the United Nations and attempts to reform it.
PassBlue
PassBlue is an award-winning, independent news company covering the US-UN relationship, women's issues, human rights, and peacekeeping.
Global Dispatches
A collection of podcasts, blogs and newsletter led by journalist Mark Leon Goldberg covering the United Nations, humanitarian issues and global affairs.
Global Governance Initiative, University College London
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Global Governance Futures Podcast
This excellent podcast explores approaches to global governance, in the context of catastrophic risks to humanity.
The Bigger Picture
These resources represent decades of serious work by brilliant people. What's been missing is the public pressure to make change happen. That's where you come in.
The solutions exist. The expertise exists. What we need now is a global movement of citizens demanding that our leaders act on what we already know. Welcome to that movement.
HOW WILL WE FIX THE U.N.?
