A Joint Initiative

Goals

Encourage all relevant actors and stakeholders to protect the integrity of the electoral process

Raise awareness of electoral processes’ key role in supporting sustainable democracy

Promote the adherence to international electoral principles by national, regional, continental and global actors

Re-situate electoral processes within security, democratization and development contexts

Objectives

Provide a compelling and comprehensive approach for national and international efforts to successfully safeguard the integrity of the electoral process

Provide recommendations to national governments, institutions and civil society as well as international and regional organizations on how to collaborate effectively to translate the new approach into practice

Promote, including at high political level, renewed commitment to the integrity of electoral processes

Commission’s Tasks

Development of recommendations– Identify major challenges– Examine engagement of the international community– Examine the roles different stakeholders – development, human

rights, security and electoral communities

Mobilisation of political commitment– Advocate a more central place for electoral processes– Publicly present its recommendations- advocate for inclusion of

recommendations on the agendas of relevant stakeholders

Leadership

The Commission’s Chair is Mr Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation and United Nations Secretary-General (1997-2006)

Vice Chair is Professor Ernesto Zedillo, Fredrick Iseman ’74 Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and President of Mexico (1994-2000)

Commissioners Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of the Republic of Finland

(1994-2000) Madeleine K. Albright, former US Secretary of State (1997-2001) and Chairman of the

National Democratic Institute Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group Vidar Helgesen, Secretary-General of International IDEA and Deputy Foreign Minister of

Norway (2001-2005) Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana (1998-2008) Amartya Sen, Nobel Economics Laureate, Lamont University Professor and Professor of

Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University Javier Solana, President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and

former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (1999-2009) Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of the Republic of Latvia (1999-2007) Hassan Wirajuda, former Foreign Minister (2001-2009) and Member of the Council of

Presidential Advisers of the Republic of Indonesia

Friends of The Commission Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand

(1999-2008) and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

Lynn Pascoe, Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations

Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, Undersecretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission and Social Commission for Western Asia, former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan (1999-2000)

Advisory Group

Director of the Commission

Professor Stephen Stedman, Freeman Spogli Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.

Secretariat of the Commission

Hosted by International IDEA

Contact us on Globalcommission@idea.int

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