President Trump is making big moves the world over. From nabbing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to threatening the conquest of Greenland to pushing for a Ukraine-Russia cease-fire, Trump’s foreign policy plate is full. The World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is still buzzing about it.
President Trump is making big moves the world over. From nabbing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to threatening the conquest of Greenland to pushing for a Ukraine-Russia cease-fire, Trump’s foreign policy plate is full. The World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is still buzzing about it.
Overshadowed by these bigger headlines but no less important is Trump’s newly minted Board of Peace.
The board is designed to implement the president’s 20-point peace plan for the war-torn Gaza Strip, as endorsed verbatim by the UN Security Council in November.
Notable critics, including French President Emmanuel Macron, assert that Trump — through this new board that he personally and indefinitely oversees — is trying to supplant the United Nations as part of a wider overhaul of the international system that, in the wake of World War II, produced the UN, NATO and many of the other organizations that are steadily losing relevance today.
One can understand Macron’s concern: The board’s charter does not mention Gaza but describes a broader mission to promote stability and secure peace in any area threatened by conflict. That sounds a lot like the UN.
