The UNSC is in desperate need of comprehensive reforms

Nine states or regional unions will be granted permanent membership with veto power: the EU, the US, Russia, China, India, Indonesia to represent Asian countries, Brazil to represent the Latin American countries, the Arab League, and the African Union. Naturally the UK could present a major obstacle in this format, as it is no longer a member of the EU and would thus lose representation on the Council.

Twelve other countries in the Security Council would rotate every two years based on the current format.

• A resolution can only be vetoed if two countries exercise their veto power.
• The Security Council will establish an enforcement mechanism to ensure that its resolutions are carried out.
• The Security Council will be empowered to resolve current violent conflicts and mediate other conflicts before they become violent.
• The General Assembly will have the power to override any veto by a two-thirds majority.
• The current global population is approximately 7.9 billion, and the total population of the above states or unions is 5.8 billion.

As such, the Security Council would represent 73 percent of the global population, instead of the current Council makeup which only represents a paltry 25 percent, lower even than the 35 percent of the global population that the permanent UNSC members represented at its creation.

As I indicated above, this may well be a farfetched idea, but then again, we must begin to think seriously about reforming the Security Council if we want the UN to perform the way it was intended to. Indeed, violent conflicts are on the rise, countries are infringing on the sovereignty of other weaker countries, and still many old conflicts remained unsolved. Together we are witnessing a far greater global volatility.

To stem these tides, we need a renewed effort to reform the UN Security Council and give it the power to resolve conflict peacefully.