Multilateralism / Comment
In larger freedom: a second call for a peacebuilding commission
07/04/2005 By Jessica Almqvist
Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls upon the U.N. to enlarge freedom in a world riven by deadly conflict.
In his report ‘In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all’ (‘ILF’) launched on 21 March 2005, the Secretary-General holds that ‘the United Nations must be transformed into the effective instrument for preventing conflict that it was always meant to be acting on several key policy and institutional priorities’ (ILF, para. 83).
Indeed, ‘no task is more fundamental to the United Nations than the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict’ (ILF, para. 106).
How could the UN and its structures better achieve these objectives?
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Keywords
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Bio author: Jessica Almqvist
PhD in Law from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2002) and LL.M. in International Law and Cand. Jur. from the University of Lund, Sweden (1993).
Jessica Almqvist has worked on several topics, including international law, international justice, and human rights.
