ABSTRACT
The decision to launch the Campaign was taken at the second plenary meeting of the UBUNTU Forum, but the idea was certainly not to start from scratch: rather, work was to proceed following the constructive, additive line taken by the UBUNTU Forum. By ‘additive’ we mean that our aim was not to work in a wholly new direction, but to reinforce and encourage the people who were already working on a challenge that was preoccupying many, and to try to succeed in dealing with it. It is said that there has been talk of the need to reform our international institutions ever since they were first created. Without going back as far as that, the author of this book – a member of the Secretariat of the World Campaign and of the UBUNTU Forum since its beginnings until 2004 – set out to bring together the most significant reform proposals that had appeared before 2002, which is when the book was published (hence it does not include Kofi Annan’s 2005 initiative, among others).
