This publication was coordinated and edited primarily by Julia Bennett of the Wilson Center’s Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, with oversight by David Birenbaum, and contributions by Anita Sharma and Georgina Petrosky, January 2006

Beleaguered by the Iraq crisis, beset by the oil-for-food scandal, and besieged by a seemingly endless series of humanitarian catastrophes, the United Nations enters the twenty-first century as a wounded institution, in plain need of major repair.

The issues addressed in the various meetings detailed in this publication included those thought to be of primary concern to the United States public policy debate on how to refashion the United Nations to respond to the realities of the twenty-first century. Given the range of issues considered and the diversity of views expressed, it is not possible to provide an executive summary of each of the discussions conducted. What then follows in this publication is an edited summary of each of these events.

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