Eighty years after the Charter was signed in San Francisco, the question is no longer whether the United Nations should be reformed. It is what the institution is for. Professor Marco Tavanti (University of San Francisco) has written a generous reflection on my new book, United Nations, Peoples, and Planet: From Transactional Power to Transformational Empowerment (Planet Healing Press). He writes from the city where the Charter was drafted and signed in 1945, and he reads the book against his own decades of work with UN agencies — on Indigenous rights, on responsible business, on development that outlasts the funding cycle. I am grateful for his reading, and for his contribution to the volume itself. The book is not another reform proposal. Across twenty-two chapters it argues that the organization must more fully become what its name already promises: a body that unites not only states, but peoples, around a shared responsibility for our common home. It proposes Human Transformation Goals alongside the SDGs. It rethinks development finance. It sets out an Ethics Charter for Global Governance. And for whoever takes office as Secretary-General in January 2027, it offers a Manifesto and a plan for the first 100 days. As Tavanti notes, visions of UN reform are plentiful; visions that say what to do in the first hundred days are not. I would especially encourage students to read it, and to disagree with it. They will live with whatever value we decide multilateralism holds. Marco's article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-united-nations-from-transactional-marco-tavanti-0pkxc/ #UnitedNations #Multilateralism #GlobalGovernance #Leadership #SDGs