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THE COMMISSION ON GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The Commission on Global Governance was established in 1992 in the belief that international developments had created favourable circumstances for strengthening global co-operation to create a more peaceful, just and habitable world for all its people.
The first steps leading to its formation were taken by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who a decade earlier had chaired the Independent Commission on International Development Issues. A meeting he convened in January 1990 asked Ingvar Carlsson (Prime Minister of Sweden), Shridath Ramphal (then Commonwealth Secretary-General) and Jan Pronk (Netherlands Minister for Development Co-operation) to prepare a report on the new prospects for world co-operation.
Some three dozen public figures who met in Stockholm in April 1991 to consider this report proposed, in their Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governance, that an international commission should recommend ways by which world security and governance could be improved, given the opportunities created by the end of the cold war for enhanced co-operation.
Willy Brandt, after consulting Gro Harlem Brundtland and Julius Nyerere, who had headed two previous commissions, invited Ingvar Carlsson and Shridath Ramphal to chair the new commission. The Commission, with twenty-eight members all serving in their personal capacity, started work in September 1992.
The Commission held eleven meetings, six in Geneva (where its secretariat was established) and the others in New York, Cuernavaca (Mexico), Tokyo, Brussels, and Visby (Sweden). It commissioned a number of papers; it had discussions with several of their authors, a number of persons from public life, and representatives of many civil society organizations. Discussions on key issues on the Commission's agenda were arranged by the Common Security Forum, the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. The UN University co-hosted a public symposium with the Commission in Tokyo.
Regional consultations with experts were arranged, with the collaboration of local organizations, in San Jose (Costa Rica), Cairo and New Delhi.
Support for the Commission's work was provided by the governments of Canada, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, two UN Trust Funds established by Japan, the Canton of Geneva, the government of Mexico City, the European Commission, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (Kuwait), the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation (all of the United States), the World Humanity Action Trust (United Kingdom), and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Germany).
The Commission decided at an early stage to remain active in efforts to disseminate its report, Our Global Neighbourhood, and to promote its ideas and recommendations. These will be pursued through speaking engagements, seminars and workshops; work with governments, international organizations, NGOs, the media; and the distribution of material.
The Commission's secretariat will continue to function in order to coordinate this work:
The Commission on Global Governance
Case Postale 184
CH-1211 GENEVA 28
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 798 2713
Fax: +41 22 798 0147
CO-CHAIRMEN MEMBERS
Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden
Shridath Ramphal, Guyana
Ali Alatas, Indonesia
Abdlatif Al-Hamad, Kuwait
Oscar Arias, Costa Rica
Anna Balletbo
Kurt Biedenkopf, Germany
Allan Boesak, South Africa
Manuel Camacho Solis, Mexico
Bernard Chidzero, Zimbabwe
Barber Conable, United States
Jacques Delors
Jiri Dienstbier
Enrique Iglesias
Frank Judd, United Kingdom
Hongkoo Lee, Republic of Korea
Wangari Maathai
Sadako Ogata, Japan
Olara A. Otunnu, Uganda
I.G. Patel, India
Celina do Amaral Peixoto, Brazil
Jan Pronk, The Netherlands
Qian Jiadong
Marie-Angelique Savane, Senegal
Adele Simmons, United States
Maurice Strong, Canada
Brian Urquhart, United Kingdom
Yuli Vorontsov, Russia
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