On April 26-27, 2012, more than 500 students gather in Guadalajara Mexico for a “Model UN Charter Review Conference.” Unlike traditional “Model UN’s,” which simulate the operations of today’s United Nations (which was invented in 1945 to address the challenges…

This piece appeared in the September 2006 issue of The Foreign Service Journal, the official magazine of the American Foreign Service Officers Association. It was part of a six-article special section on “How to Achieve Meaningful UN Reform.” All six…

This appeared in the December 22, 2004 edition of Alternet. Kofi Annan’s High Level Panel for Change fails to question the fundamental structure of the 60 Year Old UN Charter. It is often said incorrectly that the United Nations Charter,…