GPF seeks to strengthen intergovernmental organizations and promote multilateralism based on solidarity, international law, and the United Nations Charter.
Its goal is to uncover entrenched power structures within the multilateral world order and the United Nations, seeking inclusive, cooperative, peaceful, and sustainable solutions to global challenges.
The Global Policy Forum was founded in New York in 1993 by 14 progressive scholars and activists, including James Paul, Erskine Barton Childers, and Joel Krieger.
The GPF thus takes a holistic approach, combining social, economic, financial, and environmental issues, peace and security, as well as human rights and gender justice.
[5] For the most part, the GPF is financed by grants from partner organizations, public institutions and foundations, as well as by membership fees and individual donations.