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Global Governance Innovation Report 2026: Advancing the Pact for the Future and a New Peace & Security Architecture

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Global Governance Innovation Network, Stimson Center
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12 June 2026
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REPORT LAUNCH at the ACUNS Annual Meeting, Thursday, 2 July, 2:35 pm - 3:50 pm (Lisbon time). See more details on the ACUNS Annual Meeting and zoom information here: https://ggin.stimson.org/acuns-annual-meeting-2026/

From armed conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to daily signs that the planet’s health is failing and growing fears about emerging technologies, the need for effective global action has never been greater. Yet resources and political support for international organizations, and for global cooperation writ large, are fast declining. The erosion of global governance—and, in particular, of core institutions, values, and approaches fostered since the Second World War—is especially evident in the peace and security domain, where the United Nations’ peacemaking and peacebuilding capacities are all-too-often enfeebled and marginalized. In response, world leaders adopted, in September 2024, the Pact for the Future, Global Digital Compact, and Declaration on Future Generations, designed to chart a new direction for global action to better meet the urgent needs and highest aspirations of humanity. Global Governance Innovation Report 2026 (GGIR’26) offers refined tools for assessing and boosting implementation of these three global instruments, and ways to overcome obstacles to progress in the run-up to their official high-level reviews by September 2028. Drawing on specific Pact Actions, it further analyzes and recommends steps toward a bolder and more inclusive peace and security architecture to better manage 21st century threats and to revitalize the central aims and credibility of the UN. Against this backdrop, champion governments, motivated international civil servants, and dedicated civil society partners make slow yet steady headway on several of the Pact’s major goals in defense of UN values. Increasingly, they look for a new kind of leadership in 2027 and beyond, with the vision, courage, and experience to transform the United Nations by realizing the Pact’s full potential.

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