A full bore Campaign to Empower the United Nations, promoting a select list of achievable near-term reforms, can bring all the active groups together under one umbrella. Unified, they can thereby interface appropriately with the Secretary-General's office and serve the UN Secretariat's genuine interest in peace building and fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals by strengthening and funding UN agencies and operations.

CURRENT UN REFORM PLAYERS

Such a campaign process would be well set up to take advantage of a new global convergence. The operation requires administrative and strategic boldness and functionality. Conscientious fundraising can enlist co-sponsors, starting with those who have already identified themselves: Citizens for a United Nations People's Assembly, One World Now, and the UN Foundation. We need to develop competence to ask for commitments and manage resources in cooperation with other principal networks already working toward UN Reform:

Assembly of the UN of the Peoples
Center for UN Reform Education
Center for War/Peace Studies
Citizens for Global Solutions
Forum International Montreal
Global Progressive Forum
Helsinki Process
Millennium Development Goals UN Office
Ubuntu World Forum of Civil Society Networks
World Federalist Movement (WFM)
World Federation of UNAs (WFUNA)

POTENTIAL PARTNERS

The following list suggests the range of other organizations and associations in related fields endeavoring to bring about a just, peaceful, and democratic international order. The resources these groups know about can provide a shipyard of materials for building the reformed UN into a great ark for the Earth and her inhabitants.

Abolition 2000
Academic Council for the UN System
Alliance for a Responsible, Plural, and United World
Amnesty International
Attac
Business Council for Sustainable Development
Business Council for the UN
CERES
Charter 99
Coalition for a World Parliament and Global Democracy
Commission on Globalization
CONGO Conference of NGOs with EcoSoc Status
EarthAction Network
E-Parliament
Esperanto and Ibo Organizations
Focus on the Global South
Future 3000
Global Education Associates
Global Exchange
Global Policy Forum
Green Cross
Hague Appeal for Peace
Heinrich Boell Foundation
Human Rights Watch
International Council on Social Welfare
International Forum on Globalization
International Peace Bureau
Jubilee 2000
Millennium Project
NGO/DPI Executive Committee
Party of European Socialists
Registry of World Citizens
Simultaneous Policy Organization
Social Watch
Stakeholder Forum
State of the World Forum
Student World Assembly
Third World Network
Transparency International
UN Youth Council and Youth Caucus
United Nations University
University for Peace
World Council of Churches
World Future Council
World Resources Institute
World Social Forum
Young General Assembly