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In February 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan established the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations Relations with Civil Socety, chaired by Brazil's former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Its 2004 report "We the Peoples": Civil Society, the LIN, and Global Governance had a clear starting point: "Govemments alone cannot resolve todays global problems' (United Nations, 2004: 23). The panel focused on the widening democracy deficit in global govemance, the growing capacity and influence of non-state actors and the rising power of global public opinion. Its report offered 30 concrete proposals for the evolution of the UN's contemporary roles, including fostering multi-constituency processes, investing more in partnerships with civil society and including civil society in Security Council meetings. The report is especially pertinent in determining how the world organization meets the challenges of global in the twenty-first century (United Nations, 2004: 12): Multilateralism no longer concems govemments alone but is now multifaceted, involving many constituencies; the LIN must develop new skills to serve this new way of working; It must become an outward-looking or net-vvork organization, catalyzing the relationships needed to get strong results and not letting the traditions of its formal processes be barriers; It must strengthen global govemance by advocating universality, inclusion, participation, and accountability at all levels; and It must engage more systematically with world public opinion to become more responsive, to help shape public attitudes and to bolster support for multilateralism. The recommendations and proposals from such blue-ribbon panels as well as from secretariats often wither and die because member states, not the authors, are responsible for next steps. However, reports sometimes are available when a crisis arises that facilitates action. As fate would have it, many of the recommendations from the Cardoso report were implemented almost immediately in the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (Weiss and Thakur, 2010: 236). The massive relief effort showed the l_JVs ability to convene and foster multi-constituency processes, its ability to catalyze networks and its capacity to exercise global leadership. However, with urgency gone, a more severe test was the world organization's ability to carry out the rest of the report's more operational proposals concerning global govemance and civil society over the longer run, to institutionalize the procedures adopted for the moment.