Global Policy Dialogue on Global Governance Innovation: Beyond UN75 & Our Common Agenda

As an initiative of the Global Governance and Innovation Network, the Stimson Center, Academic Council on the UN System, Plataforma CIPÓ, Leiden University, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Global Challenges Foundation, the Institute for Economics & Peace, and Club de Madrid are proud to convene the Global Policy Dialogue on Global Governance Innovation: Beyond UN75 & Our Common Agenda, from 1-2 March 2022 at the Stimson Center and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres was tasked with utilizing the UN75 Declaration’s 12 commitments as an impetus “to respond to current and future challenges.” His follow-on Our Common Agenda report, released in September 2021, presented world leaders with some 90 recommendations to strengthen and renew the UN. Together, these far-reaching ideas—and the analysis underpinning them—create the basis for what may be viewed as the Secretary-General’s most consequential proposal: a Summit of the Future, timed to coincide with the General Assembly’s high-level week in September 2023.

Preceded by preparatory events and consultations, the summit would work to “advance ideas for governance arrangements in the areas of international concern mentioned in this report, and potentially others.” On 15 November 2021, with 166 co-sponsors, the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution on Follow-up to the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Our Common Agenda.” Among its recommendations was to call upon the “President of the General Assembly to initiate, under his overall guidance, a process of follow-up to enable all Member States to begin inclusive intergovernmental consideration of the various proposals, options and potential means of implementation and on ways to take them forward, in collaboration with all relevant partners through broad and inclusive consultations.”

To advance this action program with the goal of strengthening and innovating the United Nations and related global institutions, the Global Policy Dialogue (GPD) on Global Governance Innovation: Beyond UN75 & Our Common Agenda will bring together, from 1-2 March 2022 in Washington, D.C., around 75 diverse stakeholders from around the world.

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