A Forum for Peace

Olivier Urbain is Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. He is the author of Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace: Dialogue, Transformation and Global Citizenship (2010) and the editor of Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics (2008) and of Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace (2013), all published by I.B.Tauris.

Foreword by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury

List of Proposals

Chapter 1. A UN Living Up to its Mission
Fulfilling the Mission: Empowering the UN to Live Up to the World’s Expectations, 2006 United Nations Proposal (Full Text)
The Parliament of Humanity
From National Interest to the Interest of Humanity (1987)
Choose a “Human Face” rather than a “National Face” (1989)
The Spirit of the UN Charter: “We the peoples…” (1991)
Some Keys to Strengthening the United Nations (1993)
Participation of Civil Society
A Global People’s Council (2000)
A People’s Fund for the UN (2001)
The Security Council and NGOs (2005)
The General Assembly and NGOs (2006)
An Under-Secretary-General for Civil Society Relations (2009)
Soft Power
Security Council and Economic and Social Council (1994)
Human Security (1995)
“Prevention” and “Stability” (2001)
A Global Governance Coordinating Panel (2005)
An Office of Global Visioning (2009)
A New Legal Framework for Conflict Resolution
International Law for Peace (1995)
International Criminal Court (1999)
Establishing Legal Systems for the Prevention of Terrorism (2002)
Counter-Terrorism Strategies (2004)
Peacebuilding
A UN Conflict Prevention Center (1989)
A UN High Commissioner for Indigenous People and National Minorities (1993)
A Conflict Prevention Committee (2000)
A Peace Rehabilitation Council (2004)
The Peacebuilding Commission (2006)
Regional Governance
An Asia-Pacific Organization for Peace and Culture (1986)
A UN Asia Office (1994)
Stability and Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region (2005)
Toward an East Asian Union (2007)
Envisioning a United States of Africa (2001)
African Youth Partnership Plan (2008)

Chapter 2. A UN to Eliminate Misery from the Earth
For a Sustainable Global Society: Learning for Empowerment and Leadership, 2012 Environment Proposal (Full Text)
Poverty and Human Development
The Elimination of Poverty (1996)
A Global Marshall Plan (2000)
An Earth Forum for Social Justice (2001)
The Millennium Development Goals (2003)
A Global Primary Education Fund (2004)
A “Water for Life” Fund (2008)
A World Food Bank and an International Solidarity Tax (2009)
Decent Work for All and Improvement of Education for Girls (2010)
Environment and Energy
An Environmental Security Council (1990)
A United Nations of Environment and Development (1992)
The Drafting of an Earth Charter (1997)
A Global Green Fund and Renewable Energy (2002)
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005)
Strategies to Prevent Global Warming (2006)
A World Environmental Organization (2008)
An International Sustainable Energy Agency (2009)
Human Rights
Overcoming Racial Discrimination (1996)
A Network of Human Rights Agencies (1998)
Prohibition of the Use of Child Soldiers (1999)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (2002)
Human Rights Education (2004)
The UN Human Rights Council (2006)
An International Conference on Human Rights Education (2008)
Building a Culture of Human Rights (2011)
Culture of Peace
Overcoming the Culture of War (1999)
The Role of Women for Peace (2000)
Planting Seeds of Peace (2004)
A Respect for Diversity and the Spirit of Dialogue (2005)
A Global Society that Puts Children First (2010)

Chapter 3. A UN for a World without War
Building Global Solidarity toward Nuclear Abolition, 2009 Nuclear Abolition Proposal (Full Text)
Control of Conventional Weapons
The UN Register of Conventional Arms (1995)
Guidelines for Arms Transfers (1999)
An Arms Trade Treaty (2007)
Control of Small Arms (2005)
Prohibition of Land Mines (1997)
An International Treaty Banning the Use, Production and Stockpiling of Cluster Munitions (2008)
The Deinstitutionalization of War
A Universal Declaration Renouncing War (1984)
A UN Decade for Peace and Disarmament (1988)
An International Conference for a World without War (1990)
A UN Peace Summit (1994)
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research (1996)
Disarmament Education
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