Message from
CONVENOR & MANAGER CMS

Our children are the common present concern and future hope of all peoples and nations. Their future must be safeguarded. It is our inter-generational responsibility to bequeath to them a brighter and safer future. Nevertheless, current wars and conflicts around the world make their future anxious and insecure. And yet we know that children must be protected and nurtured, and that they have unqualified rights to education, equal opportunities, a safe and healthy environment, and, above all, love and affection.

Despite a growing awareness of the need for effective global governance in this interdependent world, it is absolutely necessary to revisit and revise the present global governance framework, starting with a long-overdue review of the UN Charter. The UN’s Summit of the Future, held on 22–23 September 2024, deliberated on the issue. Although no date for review of the Charter was agreed upon, the Summit issued guiding principles in relation to various institutions and issues on global matters.

For the last 25 years, students of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow (recognised as the world’s largest school by the Guinness Book of World Records), have repeatedly represented the school’s vision to the world judiciary at these Conferences. These appeals have been conceived by my late father and the founder of CMS, Dr Jagdish Gandhi. Resolutions were passed to urge the world’s judiciary to unite and form a New World Order, recognising the undeniable need to establish enforceable international law. These resolutions did not seek to criticise or denigrate the United Nations, but to uphold and support its authority, prestige and power for addressing the problems facing humanity and our planet.

Continuing this noble mission, the 26^th Conference will be held between 19^th and 24^th November 2025. It is my honour and privilege to invite you to this event, not only the Honourable Chief Justices and Judges of the Supreme Courts, and Judges of the International Court of Justice, but also some of the Heads of States, Heads of Governments, Speakers of Parliaments, and eminent representatives of organisations related to the theme of the Conference. It is the responsibility of all leaders of thought, including the world judiciary, to make their united voice heard to urge a wider global perspective, so that the future of the world may be safeguarded.

We hope that the platform of this Conference will provide the judiciary an opportunity to reflect on the role it can play in bringing about global governance reforms that can help create peace, enabling the world today in the interest of a safe and secure future for humanity, especially for over 2.5 billion children of the world and future generations. We hope that ideas of collaboration, partnership and the exchange of knowledge will be chosen in these deliberative solutions.