{"id":9932,"date":"2017-06-26T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T13:36:53","slug":"proposals-for-un-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9932","title":{"rendered":"Proposals for Reform of the United Nations: Are they sufficiently radical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-26-at-7.38.18-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9933\" \/><\/center>In the blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/decade-culture-of-peace.org\/blog\/?p=440\">Proposal for a Radical Reform of the United Nations&#8221;<\/a>, it is asserted that &#8220;As it is structured now, the United Nations is controlled by national governments, with their military institutions and military budgets. Over the course of history, national governments have come to monopolize war. As a result, if we are to make the transition from a culture of war to a culture of peace, we need a radical reform of the United Nations. Instead of being controlled by the Member States, it should be controlled by \u201cWe the Peoples,\u201d the words that begin its Charter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * * * * * * * * *\n<\/p>\n<p>This question applies to the following CPNN articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=13401\">European Parliament Calls for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and a UN Reform Summit in 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=10182\">Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly now endorsed by over 1,500 current and former lawmakers from 120 countries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=10162\">Roundtable on Increasing Democratic Representation at the United Nations in The Hague<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9944\">Chief justices call on world leaders \u201cto work for the establishment of a world parliament\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6197\">Pan-African Parliament calls on African Union to support the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=6191\">Calls for UN Security council reform at Istanbul summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=5931\">A Joint Declaration on the Environment, Social Inequality and Elimination of Nuclear Threat, with a Proposal for UN reform<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=5914\">Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog &#8220;Proposal for a Radical Reform of the United Nations&#8221;, it is asserted that &#8220;As it is structured now, the United Nations is controlled by national governments, with their military institutions and military budgets. Over the course of history, national governments have come to monopolize war. As a result, if we are to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proposals for Reform of the United Nations: Are they sufficiently radical?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-democratic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}