International institutions reform
Institutions for 21st Century challenges
International institutions such as the United Nations were established for another age. But global shifts in culture, economy, politics, communications and national independence have helped to create an interdependent world of 200 states.Our institutions are increasingly unable to deal with the range of problems that now threaten the world’s stability, prosperity and sustainability:
- conflict and insecurity
- climate change
- interdependent international financial systems
- terrorism
- proliferation of weapons
- development emergencies
- global poverty and rising inequality
- increasing demand on scarce resources such as food and energy.
We must now work together to make these institutions deliver real and lasting change to tackle these 21st Century challenges.They are still the best mechanism to achieve this through alegal framework of regulated relations between countries.
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The UK wants action to reform institutions
We believe institutions will not be reformed fast enough to meet these new challenges unless we all work together.We urgently need a 'global dialogue' on the:
- need to reform international institutions
- global challenges we must address and possible solutions
- practical ways to achieve this.
- Reforming international institutions, and particularly the World Bank, to be capable of tackling climate change and global poverty.
- Re-examining the roles of the IMF and World Bank to find news ways to handle global financial turbulence and to bring prosperity to more than just afortunate few.
- Reforming international institutions to more effectively counter terrorism, the spread of conflict, and state failure; while ensuring energy and capacity remains to not just tacklecrises but stabilise post-conflict too.
