Proposal No. 5 - Pierre Genevier

Proposal’s goal

The war in Ukraine and the 50 other ongoing conflicts in the world leave no doubt (1) that the UN needs to be strengthened in the area of peacekeeping, and (2) that NATO is more a cause of conflicts than it helps maintain peace in Europe and elsewhere. In addition, the rapid progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires us to implement greater transparency in the military field.

Finally, the UN Charter has required us since its creation to find ways to use as little as possible of the world’s human and economic resources for armaments, in order to establish and maintain peace and security around the world. This will not be possible (or it will be much more difficult) if we do not create a new international organization that can monitor the development and production of armaments in all countries and put in place strategies and mechanisms that help countries to reduce the production and use of armaments (see also PJ no 1 no 39-43).

Therefore, we need a new IO capable of addressing these problems and strengthening the UN in the area of peacekeeping, having, among others, the following responsibilities:

To gather information (and create databases) (a) on the composition of the armies of each UN member country (and others), (b) on the types and stocks of weapons of each country, and (c) on the activity of the arms industry in each country that has one.
To conduct independent studies on the threats faced by different countries.
To help establish (a) regulations on the use of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in the military field, (b) control mechanisms to verify that these new regulations are respected, and (c) legal mechanisms to prevent abuses and violations of the regulations.
To coordinate the efforts made by all countries in the field of armaments, and to control the production and sale of all armaments (including new armaments), in order, among other things, to comply with the UN Charter.

Art. 26 of the Charter: "In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security by diverting only the minimum of the world's human and economic resources to armaments, the Security Council, with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee provided for in Article 47, shall be responsible for developing plans for submission to the Members of the Organization for the establishment of a system for regulating armaments."

This has never been done seriously and effectively because it is complicated and it takes much more than a staff committee to do it well.

To encourage all countries to reduce their defense budgets (while allowing the modernization of their armies).
To act in favor of disarmament and the maintenance of peace and international security.