Multilateralism / Comment
High level panel on threats challenges and change: recommendation to establish a Peacebuilding Commission
25/07/2005 By Shepard Forman
In its November, 2004 report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (HLP), recommends that the Security Council, acting under Article 29 of the Charter of the United Nations, and after consultation with the Economic and Social Council, establish a Peacebuilding Commission (Chapter XV:263, page 83).
This paper presents:
I. the rationale for the proposed Peacebuilding Commission, examines some of its basic premises, and presents some options regarding its:
II. institutional status, including its relationship to the Security Council and other organs of the United Nations, particularly the proposed Peacebuilding Support Office within the Secretariat (XV. 266. page 84.);
III. Functions;
IV. Composition and membership;
V. Financing.
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Bio author: Shepard Forman
Shepard Forman is Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University and post-doctoral studies in Economic Development at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, England.
