ABSTRACT
This chapter infers recommendations for how to reinvigorate the UN system from the findings of this book. It makes ten recommendations. Five of them are about reforming the institutional foreground: adequate funding, co-management as opposed to fragmentation, developing new institutions out of existing ones, putting more emphasis on justice, and giving voice to stakeholders who usually remain marginalised. Another set of five recommendations revolves around revisiting the background: establishing trust, taking dialogue seriously, leaving orthodox high politics and low politics categorisations behind, understanding problems holistically, and bridging backgrounds across different actor groupings. These recommendations amount to a very tall order. But the authors are not entirely pessimistic about the prospects for reinvigorating the United Nations. There is a silver lining on the horizon – i.e. the enlightened self-interest of member states and non-state actors in a reinvigorated United Nations that is able to help humankind navigate a rapidly changing world.
