Trump Unveils ‘Board of Peace’ in Davos, Post-UN World Order

For the past twenty years, For more than twenty years, my colleagues and I have argued for what the world actually needs, not a malevolent,failed United Nations, but a union of headed by the US wth shared values and moral clarity.

From its inception, the United Nations was structurally destined to fail. It has failed the tortured, the oppressed, and the poor on a scale that is impossible to quantify. Graft and corruption are not anomalies at the UN; they are endemic to the institution itself. As Norm Coleman once put it, the UN functions as a “jobs program for many countries,” where nations that contribute little or nothing wield outsized influence over global affairs.

The bureaucracy alone is damning: thousands of mandates and precious little to show for them.

When the question was seriously examined—can the UN be reformed?—the answer, save for a few isolated voices, was a decisive no. The sharpest minds reached the same conclusion: the institution is beyond repair. The alternative is not reform, but replacement.

What is needed is a new body: the United Democratic Nations—an alliance of free nations bound by shared principles, accountable governance, and respect for human rights. One of the UN’s core malignancies is its foundational contradiction: democracies and dictatorships coexisting as equals in a single global body. That model does not work. It never has. It never will.

The United Nations has not merely been ineffective. It has been complicit—sometimes. An institution that treats freedom and tyranny as morally equivalent forfeits its legitimacy. And that is precisely what the UN has done.

Out of 60 invited countries, the following have confirmed participation in Trump’s "Board of Peace":

🇺🇸 United States (Chair)
🇦🇱 Albania
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇱 Israel
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
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— GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo) January 21, 2026

Donald J. Trump unveiled his international Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, presenting it as a new global body designed to rival and pressure the United Nations. Trump said Israel’s war against Hamas was nearing its end, claiming remaining conflict amounted to “little fires,” and declared the world safer and more prosperous than a year ago. He became the first to sign the Board’s founding charter, joined on stage by officials from more than 20 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Latin America. While sharply critical of the UN’s record, Trump said the Board of Peace would still work with existing institutions as it pursues conflict resolution and global security.

While the integrity of certain participants—Turkey, Qatar, and others—remains deeply suspect, they may nonetheless have strong incentives to make such an arrangement work. Self-interest can be a powerful enforcer, and if protecting their gains requires restraining the savages, they may well do so—not out of virtue, but calculation.

*While Israel was not among the countries that publicly signed President Trump’s Board of Peace charter at Davos, its absence should not be read as opposition. Israel is widely understood to be aligned with the initiative’s goals but is proceeding cautiously for strategic reasons. With active and recently concluded military operations, Israel traditionally avoids becoming an inaugural signatory to new multilateral frameworks until operational realities stabilize and diplomatic terms are fully defined. Unlike symbolic sign-ons, Israel prioritizes substance over ceremony—preferring to evaluate how a new body functions, who enforces its guarantees, and whether it meaningfully departs from the UN’s long record of bias and failure. In short, Israel is not rejecting the Board of Peace; it is reserving formal commitment until the structure proves it will deliver security, not speeches.

Trump unveils ‘Board of Peace’ in Davos ceremony, claims Gaza war ‘down to little fires’

By Steven Nelson, Nicholas McEntyre and Samuel Chamberlain, NY Post, Jan. 22, 2026

President Trump unveiled his international Board of Peace during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, expanding on his vision for a global body to rival the United Nations and claiming that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was all but over.

“They’re down to little fires,” Trump said of the situation in the Palestinian enclave, which has been shattered by more than two years of fighting. “We can put them out very easily.”

Trump, 79, was the first to sign the charter inaugurating the board and was joined on stage by officials from more than 20 other countries — including Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan.

US President Donald Trump holds a signed founding charter at the “Board of Peace” meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026.

“We have peace in the Middle East, no one thought that was possible,” Trump proclaimed in brief remarks.

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“Today the world is a safer, richer and much more peaceful place than it was one year ago.”

Trump also promised that the board would “work with many others, including the United Nations,” which the president has accused of straying from its original mission to resolve conflicts and promote peace and global security.

“I think we can spread out to other things as we succeed with Gaza, we’re going to be very successful in Gaza,” he said, adding: “We can do numerous other things. Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do.”

“I think the combination of the Board of Peace with the kind of people we have here, coupled with the United Nations, can be something very, very unique for the world,” Trump went on.

“Together we are in a position to have an incredible chance — I don’t even call it a chance, I think it’s going to happen — to end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed and forge a beautiful, everlasting and glorious peace for that region.”
Moments later, however, Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized that the board’s “first and foremost” job is “making sure that this peace deal in Gaza becomes enduring” before turning its attention elsewhere.

The Board of Peace was conceptualized in September as part of the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, which special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner put forward to end the two-year Israel-Hamas conflict.

A resolution blessing the board’s role in supervising a transitional Palestinian government replacing Gaza’s Hamas rulers as well as an international peacekeeping force was ratified by the United Nations in November.
The 20-point plan ultimately calls for Hamas to lay down its arms, something the terror group has so far refused to do.

“If Hamas doesn’t do what they say they will do, they were born with rifles in their hands. But they have to give up their weapons. If they don’t do that, it’s totally the end of them,” Trump said Thursday.

Last week, the White House announced it was moving forward with “Phase Two” of the Gaza plan, despite Hamas’ failure to return the remains of Israeli counter-terror police Master Sgt. Ran “Rani’’ Gvili — believed to be the sole remaining victim of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack whose body is unaccounted for.

“We are committed that Hamas must return that last remaining deceased hostage and that will be the full committment and we’ll get on to bigger things,” Trump said Thursday. “We’re committed to ensuring Gaza is demilitarized, properly governed and beautifully rebuilt.”

The president has repeatedly talked up Gaza’s potential as a tourism destination rivaling some of the gleaming modern cities of the Middle East like Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Kushner made no secret of the ultimate ambition for the Strip on Thursday, presenting a slide deck that included real estate development plans with “residential” and “coastal tourism mixed” zones, including 100,000 new housing units in Rafah, as well as the construction of a “New Gaza” City.