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Negotiation Process-Design Is Key for Article 109 UN Charter Review

Exploring practical pathways toward UN Charter review that overcome diplomatic deadlock, past failures, and entrenched multilateral negotiation practices

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Policy Brief
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Global Challenges Foundation, Global Governance Innovation Network, Institute for Global Negotiation, Stimson Center
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13 May 2026
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At a critical juncture for the United Nations and multilateralism, this policy brief suggests concrete ways to overcome challenges on the path toward an Article 109 Conference to review the UN Charter. It argues that three main traps can be avoided: i) the “doomed narrative” trap with geopolitics and conflicts invoked to justify that it has become challenging or impossible to forge common ground; ii) the “past failure” trap where unsuccessful attempts to convene a Conference due in 1955 to review the UN Charter are recalled to cast a negative mindset on future efforts; iii) and the “established practice” trap when justifying that diplomats cannot be expected to engage differently in multilateral processes and negotiations. The policy brief contends that early and sound investment in the potentials of negotiation and process-design provides concrete avenues to overcome these and other challenges. Both during the mobilization and formalization phases, concrete steps can showcase the ability to innovate in multilateral process(es) leading up to an Article 109 Conference, which in itself would be a success and would provide a higher chance to deliver a UN Charter review both ambitious and agreeable to all. Such focus on process would also allow moving away from a “win-lose” approach to negotiation and foster a “win-win” approach, with a third win, the win of the collective: “people and planet.”

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