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Brazil’s former Foreign Minister of External Relations, Celso Amorim’s contribution to the Future of Conflict collection of 20 essays for Crisis Group’s 20th Anniversary.

As the UN marks its 70th anniversary, the crucial question of Security Council reform remains neglected, despite a number of UN-focused initiatives launched, both by think-tanks and other private institutions, as well as by the UN Member States and its secretariat. This, despite the fact that the Security Council and its reform has been the object of heated and, by and large, fruitless debate for at least twenty years. Now, on the occasion of the UN’s 70th anniversary, the upcoming G20 meeting — and the G20 themselves — should be leveraged to gain real traction for reform efforts and ensure a broader group of voices, reflecting today’s world, are heard.

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First in our series of 20 essays for Crisis Group’s 20th anniversary, a piece by our President & CEO Jean-Marie Guéhenno.

Ignorance and indifference, not the great power rivalries and proxy conflicts of the Cold War, killed the victims of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. The accompanying massacres, refugee flows and destruction would have stood a far better chance of being prevented if intelligent policies had been proposed and backed by high-level advocacy. This gap was the principal impetus for the men and women who established the International Crisis Group in 1995.

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20 Essays on Crisis Group’s 20th Anniversary

To mark the 20th anniversary of International Crisis Group, we are publishing a series of 20 essays by foreign policy leaders forecasting the “Future of Conflict”.

These authors are principally the distinguished statesmen and women, business leaders, and thinkers who have turned our Board of Trustees into a deeply experienced forum for debate about current affairs. We tasked them to identify the global challenges that worried them most or the trends they thought were overlooked.

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