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by Jaka Bizilj<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ukraine continues to fight for survival the world watches a tragic irony unfold: unsuccessful peace talks are underway since three years, while Russia – the aggressor –  blocks and even chairs the United Nations Security Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time a perpetrator has presided over its own crimes. For example Sudan chaired a Security Council hearing on Darfur, even as it stood accused of committing crimes against humanity and genocide there itself. I remember that moment vividly as I assisted the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo in this hearing, where Ocampo reported the crimes. The very institutions meant to uphold peace were instead hijacked by those undermining it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations, like the League of Nations before it, has failed to protect peace and democracy. Founded in 1920 after WWI to stop wars,  the League collapsed in the face of rising fascism in 1939, when Russia invaded Finland and Hitler Poland. Today, the UN Security Council in a similar way is powerless against authoritarian vetoes – Russia blocks resolutions on Ukraine and China uses its veto power to shield authoritarian allies from accountability and to block Taiwan\u2019s international recognition and participation. Although the United Nations has contributed greatly to peacekeeping, humanitarian aid, and global cooperation, its Security Council has repeatedly failed to prevent or stop mass atrocities – in part due to the veto power held by permanent members. From Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, to the civilian massacres in Gaza (where more Israeli soldiers and parliament members refuse to continue participating in the attacks), ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, chemical attacks in Syria, mass rapes and killings in Sudan, and the starvation of civilians in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region, the Council has been paralyzed by political and geopolitical interests. This repeated inaction in the face of war crimes highlights the urgent need for a new democratic alliance capable of upholding justice and protecting human rights where the UN cannot. The system is broken.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequences are dangerous. In his Encyclical \u201cFratelli Tutti\u201d from 2020, a thought-provoking memorandum for the world, worth reading as much as the Communist Manifest by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels a century ago as it questions the status quo of society in the most consequent way possible, Pope Francis warns that the twenty-first century \u201cis witnessing a weakening of the power of nation states, chiefly because the economic and financial sectors, being transnational, tend to prevail over the political. Given this situation, it is essential to device stronger and more efficiently organized international institutions, with functionaries who are appointed fairly by agreement among national governments, and empower to impose sanctions.\u201d Pope Francis demands \u201csome form of world authority regulated by law\u201d<\/strong>, \u201cequipped by the power to provide for the global common good, the elimination of hunger and poverty and the sure defense of fundamental human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody can seriously claim to have found a third way between Capitalism, which has thrown the world into dangerous world economic crises and debt, and Communism, which brought mostly oppression and dictatorship, as still seen in China today, but there can be no question in regards of security:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world urgently needs a third attempt  after The League of Nations and the United Nations to end all wars –  a new framework capable of defending liberal values and democracy. The World Forum proposed such a body, which has been in discussion in principle since a century: The World Council of Democratic Nations. At The World Forum 2025, Geoffrey Robertson KC, the world’s leading human rights lawyer and mentor to the current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer,  delivered a landmark call to action: 74 democratic nations or possibly 125 ICC members must form a \u201cDemocratic Union\u201d. Not to replace the UN, but to finally deliver on its broken promises. Such entity shall provide a platform for united democratic action: a Charter of Rights, a Constitutional Court, collective peacekeeping forces, and a newly envisioned Court of Aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new Council shall be different. No veto power. No paralysis. No appeasement of tyrants. Just a united front of democracies ready to respond – politically, legally, and, if necessary, militarily. It seeks to support democratic transitions, uphold international law, combat disinformation, and create systems of rapid response to genocide, war crimes, and illegal invasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To bring this vision to life, The World Forum, together with Cinema for Peace and the Court of the Citizens of the World, has outlined three strategic implementation phases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n