Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change, by Mike Gravel: on Foreign Policy


Mike Gravel: Restructure UN for participatory global governance

As a result of my experiences and studies on global governance, I have now written a specific plan that defines the kind of global governance that would work fairly for everyone. It is a restructured UN that would require little change in the UN Charter, which is a magnificent document.

The creation of a legislative proposal--the National Initiative for Democracy--is nothing less than an effort to bring about a fundamental change in the paradigm of human governance. Certainly, it is not the most modest undertaking, but in essence a very simple one; and that is that human beings with rational will are more than capable to govern themselves. They merely need a structure to do it in a common-sense fashion.

Source: Mandate for Change, by Mike Gravel, p. xvi-C Jan 24, 2008

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