What Global Issues and Subjects Does the Global Governance Forum Explore?

The Global Governance Forum organizes its research around ten subject areas that it describes as issues "that already bind humanity together": climate change, gender equality, extremes of wealth and poverty, education for transformation, the rule of law, peace and security, corruption and transparency, UN reform, migration and population, and protocols complementary to a Second United Nations Charter. Each subject has its own section on the site, and the Forum frames the whole body of work as "evidence based solutions to governing globally."

The Ten Subject Areas

The site's "Explore by Subject" section lists the following areas:

The Forum's stated purpose for this structure is to explore "improved or alternative models of global governance based on the issues that already bind humanity together" — that is, subjects treated as shared global problems rather than as the domestic affairs of individual states.

UN Reform as the Central Thread

UN reform runs through much of the site's content and connects several of the other subjects. The Forum hosts a set of documents under this heading:

• A Second United Nations Charter: Modernizing the UN for a New Generation — described as the product of a year of work by "a diverse and experienced cadre of individuals" exploring what Charter reform might entail and what a new Charter could look like. The Forum presents it as "an invitation to a much-needed conversation" rather than a finished proposal.
• Protocols complementary to the Second United Nations Charter — available as a downloadable PDF.
• Revised Statute of the International Court of Justice — also available as a PDF download.
• Article 109 — listed alongside the charter materials, referring to the UN Charter's own amendment provision.

If your interest is institutional design rather than a single policy field, this cluster is the place to start.

Research Formats Beyond Issue Pages

The Forum publishes in several formats, which matters if you are looking for citable material rather than a general overview:

• Occasional Papers — longer-form research.
• Featured articles and commentary — for example, "Rethinking Global Governance" (Sep 22, 2026), Luigi Ferrajoli's "A Federation for the Earth—A Constitution for the UN" (Oct 25, 2026), and Oona Hathaway on international law and the future of the United Nations (Oct 13, 2026).
• Coalition initiatives and indices — including the Gender Equality and Governance Index and the Global Catastrophic Risk Index.
• A blog, events listings, and a podcast — for ongoing discussion rather than formal research.
• A book-length project — Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century, which the site describes as gathering twenty-eight contributors offering proposals for reforming existing international institutions.

How to Decide Whether the Site Fits Your Need

• If you want an overview of a specific policy field (say, migration or corruption), go directly to that subject page; each is a curated entry point rather than a full archive.
• If you are researching UN Charter reform or international court reform, the downloadable charter, protocols, and ICJ statute documents are the most substantive material described on the site.
• If you need peer-reviewed or primary-source data, note that much of what the site surfaces is commentary, occasional papers, and advocacy-oriented proposals; treat the indices and papers as starting points and follow their citations.
• If you want to follow current debate, the blog, events, and podcast sections carry the most frequently updated content.

The site also accepts donations through Stripe, but the pages described here do not state whether any content is restricted or paid — assume you may need to check individual downloads and papers for access conditions.