Reforming the United Nations in the high technological era

The new core United Nations, a reformed one, must focus on security, human rights and development. To achieve results in these areas it must reorganise itself, taking into consideration we are in an different era. Mechanisms like the UN Security Council, with the current composition and rules, are instruments of the past. We need organs that have the global representative of the world of today and make use of the most advanced technology. For instance, the new UN should put in place a Permanent Neutrality Monitoring Infrastructure. This would mean shared sensor arrays and and a system of satellite verification centers.

Peacekeeping, and this is just another example, should include a Multilateral Enforcement Clause. The challenge is to define the rules of such Clause, but member States should work on that definition. 

In my opinion, a Multilateral Enforcement Clause would be a specialized legal and strategic UN Security Council-approved tech-based mechanism within a peacebuilding/keeping treaty designed to ensure compliance through collective action. An enforcement clause would permit pre-authorized consequences and automaticity.

Its primary goal is to solve the "Security Dilemma"—where one party is afraid to comply because they fear the other side will cheat—by creating a credible, high-cost penalty for violations. The clause must explicitly define what constitutes a violation severe enough to activate enforcement. The violations could be of three types: qualitative, quantitative and procedural. A simple "denial of access" to monitors could be classified a de facto breach, a "red line violation". 

A key aspect of the reform is to remove the Veto power of the UN Security Council permanent members. That can be done through indirect means. For instance, sanctions would automatically return unless the Council votes unanimously to keep them lifted. This means a single power cannot protect a violator. Or, by referring the possible violation to a neutral body (like the International Court of Justice or a specialized panel of experts) so that the determination of a breach is objective rather than political.

Basically, I am stressing two points in this text: the UN reform, its political role, is a matter of great urgency; and it can be done if we move out of traditional approaches and old fashioned ways of looking at international affairs.