Who is 'Elect the Council'?
Elect The Council is an international campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In addition to engagement with UN member states, support and participation is being solicited from civil society, churches, business, non-governmental organisations and regional groupings. Elect The Council is working towards an enabling resolution to effect UNSC reform by two-thirds of the members of the UN General Assembly, based on a detailed set of recommendations tailored to the emerging world order. The campaign is coordinated by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (www.issafrica.org).
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Jakkie Cilliers
Chairman of the ISS Board of Trustees and Head of the African Futures and Innovation
Dr Jakkie Cilliers is the Chairman of the ISS Board of Trustees and Head of the African Futures and Innovation programme in Pretoria. Jakkie co-founded the ISS in 1990 and was the executive director until 2015. He is an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre of Human Rights and the Department of Political Sciences, Faculty Humanities at the University of Pretoria. His most recent book, The Future of Africa – Challenges and Opportunities is open source and available here.
Our Team
Elect The Council has been supported by a number of team members from the ISS’ African Futures & Innovation Programme. These team members were responsible for the coordination of multiple events, across multiple countries and consolidated all these inputs into the series of proposals hosted here.
Current Team Members
Alize le Roux
Senior Researcher
Enoch Randy Aikins
Researcher
Du Toit McLachlan
Research Officer
Kouassi Yeboua
Senior Researcher
Former Team Members
Anu Klaassens
Programme Officer
Lily Welborn
Researcher
Zachel van Aswegen
Programme Officer
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