Board of Peace …

B. R. GOWANI

On January , 2026, President Trump in Davos, Switzerland, along with the new members, ratified the Charter of the Board of Peace IMAGE/The White House

League of Nations

  • LoN or League of Nations was founded on January 10, 1920.
  • The formal agreement for LoN was signed on June 28, 1919.
  • The central force behind LoN was US president Woodrow Wilson.
  • Same year Wilson was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for LoN.
  • Ironically, the US didn’t join LoN because of Republican Senators’ opposition.
  • LoN was the first international organization for solving inter-governmental problems.
  • The most members LoN had was 58.
  • The number would have been much higher but many countries were under colonial rule.
  • LoN headquarter in Geneva remained closed during WWII (1939-!945).
  • On April 8, 1946, the League of Nations came to an end.

United Nations

  • UN or United Nations founding was decided on June 12, 1941.
  • By August, the Atlantic Charter was drafted by US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill about the goals once the Second World War ends.
  • The Atlantic Charter was signed on June 26, 1945 with the goal of maintaining international peace and security.
  • The UN became an US instrument to wage wars, vetoing resolutions against Palestinian independence, supporting Israeli wars and its stealing of Palestinian lands and its committing of genocide.
  • Despite brave work by the UN Special Rapporteur like Francesca Albanese, and others like her, the UN has not been allowed to perform the work it was designed for because it was born with deformities, like the veto power given to the five permanent members: The US, The UK, France, Russia, and Taiwan (China, since 1971), which could kill any initiative by the UN Security Council (5 permanent members plus 10 non-permanent members elected every two years). The UN General Assembly consists of around 200 member nations.
  • Will the UN survive? It is hard to say because another organization TN or TSO has already been established. Trump said the following:
  • “The U.N. just hasn’t been very helpful. I’m a big fan of the U.N.’s potential, but it has never lived up to its potential. The U.N. should have settled every one of the wars that I settled. I never went to them. I never even thought to go to them.”

Board of Peace or TN or TSO

  • Board of Peace (BoP) was announced on September 29, 2025, and came into existence on January 22, 2026 with a speech by US President Donald Trump who is chairman .
  • The initial mission of BoP was related to reconstruction of Gaza Strip, Palestine, which has been totally destroyed by Israel who indulged in a genocide of Palestinians. Unsurprisingly, Gaza is not mentioned in the charter. (See the full text here.)
  • It is Trump’s prerogative to accept or reject new members, or accept and reject as he did with Canada. Canada was accepted as a member but then Trump didn’t like the speech of Canadian Premier Mark Carney <1> which he delivered at WEF (World Economic Forum) which was critical of Trump’s tariffs and his demand to get Greenland.
  • It will be a three year membership unless it is renewed by Trump. Those who pay US$1,000,000,000 ($1 billion) fee in cash within the first year of the Charter’s entry into force will have a permanent seat — the world pretty much knows how permanent the agreements with the US are.
  • Out of the 62 countries Trump invited to join TN, only 26 have accepted the offer, and that also to save their asses from the wrath of Trump. (Many of them are Muslim countries.)
  • Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t attend the ceremony because of an arrest warrant issued against him by the ICC (International Criminal Court) for a genocide of Palestinians. The Swiss government had declared its intention to arrest Netanyahu if he entered Switzerland.
  • It is not Board of Peace (BoP) but is Trump Nations (TN) or Trump Sycophants Organization (TSO).
  • Not even a week had passed since the charter was ratified, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three warships have arrived in the Middle East because the Chairman of the Board of Peace who wants to establish peace wants to bomb Iran!

Will BoP survive?

BoP is a Trump man show; so many nations, including the four permanent UN members, Britain, China, France, and Russia, won’t join it. Pakistani Dawn newspaper’s former editor Abbas Nasir expresses some hope:

“But if it stops the genocide, and leads to some relief for the Gaza population and sets things on the path to reconstruction and rehabilitation it will be worthwhile. This is how powerless we are to see justice prevail in the world.”

BoP will further weaken the UN and perhaps make it irrelevant and let it die. Only time will tell. However, the BoP’s life will not be too long either.

Note:

<1> Carney’s speech was full of hypocrisy. Just one point:

“… the middle powers must act together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Why just the middle powers, why not also include the small powers too. Venezuela, Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Haiti, and so many others were on the White menu and were being eaten, did Canada protested or tried to prevent those being eaten? No. Canada was also an accomplice.

B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com