The Last Class Session Of New York City

A journey that lead to new revelations about myself and the world around me. Throughout the four days of the conference, there were seven committee sessions; I gave a total of three short, stutter-free speeches. Suffice to say, I was no award-winning delegate. Despite that, my knowledge of the world grew, and my knowledge of what I needed to work on to improve my skills as a delegate grew as well. Yes, I decided I wanted to go to another conference. Regardless of how scary and unpredictable Model UN could be for myself, I wanted to be able to stand confidently in front of the other 149 delegates, rallying them with my flawless plan to aid the syrian refugees or preventing nuclear war with North Korea. For years, I had locked myself into a small world filled only with comforts. Model UN helped me discover the importance of being aware of world affairs and developing problem solving skills that one day, I might use in the real

Thesis: The role of the United Nations has changed from being primarily an international peacekeeping force to primarily a humanitarian organization.

Thesis: The role of the United Nations has changed from being primarily an international peacekeeping force to primarily a humanitarian organization.

In this essay, I shall be discussing whether the UN Security Council (hereafter referred to as the Security Council) is fit for purpose in the 21st Century. The approach I will be taking is more of a generic outlook; examining which fragments of the Security Council requires reformation.

The United Nations has become a sort of bureaucracy, dependent on the views of the five major powers that sit on the Security Council. The United Nations during the Rwandan crisis centered their policies on the survival of the institution itself. The Preventable Genocide International Panel of Eminent Personalities for Rwanda reaffirmed these realist interests in saying: "On April 8 and 9, Dallaire's UN troops were immediately ordered – by the Secretariat in New York, and under strong pressure from western countries to work with the French to evacuate foreign nationals rather than protect threatened Rwandans" (Rwanda). This is an unfortunate example of realist interests, which is not to say that these men and women were not important, they were, but extra support was not given to help pull them out which meant that the support the Rwandans needed was of even lesser strength than it previously had been. The UN at this point in history was failing from many defeats such as the intervention in Somalia , and it was therefore very reluctant to commit to another mission, which defiantly clouded judgement when it came to intervening in Rwanda. Alison Des Forges amplified this in saying most staff at the U.N. were fixed on averting another failure in peacekeeping operations, even at the cost of Rwandan lives" (Des Forges). Dallaire looks at the UN more in-depth by

In 2008, the Executive Director of UNODC, Antonio Maria Costa, affirmed “there is indeed a spirit of reform in the air, to make the conventions fit for purpose and adapt them to the reality on the ground that is considerably different to the time they were drafted. With the multilateral machinery to adapt the conventions already available, all we need is: first, a renewed commitment to the principles of multilateralism and shared responsibility; second, a commitment to base our reform on empirical evidence and not ideology; and thirdly, to put in place concrete actions that support the above, going beyond mere rhetoric and pronouncement”. (UNODC, 2008)

President Kennedy’s address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1961 was given at a critical moment in the life of that body, one week after the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld who had had been killed in a plane crash in the Congo. Some counseled the President to cancel his plans to address the opening of the General Assembly on September 25. But the President believed the UN had to have a future and he decided to speak forcefully on the real issues confronting the Assembly and the world: a stronger United Nations – disarmament and a nuclear test ban – cooperation on outer space and economic development – an end to colonialism – and recognition of the Communist threats to peace over Berlin and Southeast Asia.

Schlesinger utilizes this portion of his work to identify the ideological origins of the United Nations and to detail the intricacies of the organization’s foundation. He begins his discussion of the UN by outlining the political movements that led to its establishment. Schlesinger includes this analysis in order to illustrate the extent of humanity’s experimentation with international governance and law. The discussion attempts to determine key differences between the United Nations and its predecessors (Schlesinger 2003). Schlesinger then examines the negotiations which took place between the Allied Powers as World War II drew to a close (Schlesinger 2003). These negotiations resulted in the formation of the international organizations which structure global society today.

The League of Nations and the United Nations were both developed with the same intention to bring peace to the world through collaboration among member countries and the idea of combined security at international level. Today, the noticeable difference between both organizations is that the UN is currently up and running effectively while the League of Nations failed explicitly and came to an end in 1946. However, the motivation behind the development of the UN was the failure of the League of Nations. The UN was founded after World War II and the failure of the League of Nations has provided some valuable lessons over the years which have been deemed beneficial for the success of the UN. Therefore, in this essay I will discuss the causes of failure of the League of Nations and how it led to the creation of the United Nations in order to determine whether the United Nations should be held to the standard of League of Nations.

As I have gained a strong foundational understanding of concepts and ideas apart of international relations such as human rights, peace and conflict resolution, foreign policy, development and humanitarian action, the UNSS program will allow me to take what I have learned thus far and apply it to the UN and to international crisis’s happening in the world today. The class will assist me in developing a skill set necessary to pursue a career in international affairs, specifically by providing scholarly and practitioner training. In times where people question the abilities of the UN, I believe more than ever that it’s organizations like the UN that are needed, especially in today’s world, to maintain international peace, cooperation, and development. The opportunity to learn and better understand every aspect of the UN will allow me to not only reinforce my understanding of international crisis’s past and present but also develop the analytical skills necessary for my future endeavors in international

Attention getter: How many of you are tired of the extinction of species, overcrowded streets, and low life rates in developing countries? As the United Nations, “an organization which most countries belong to that is supposed to encourage international peace and co-operation”, you want to help the planet and the people that live on it right? (“Definition of ‘United Nations’,” n.d.).

“ Here is a task truly of, by and for the world, one that should rally nations. The nature of this task however, must be clearly understood; only then can suitable means for accomplishing it be formulated, only then can the role that the United Nations could and should play be appreciated” ( Wilcox/Haviland, 29). There are many international organizations that have been talked about throughout this semester. One of the most important ones is The United Nations. The United Nations was established October 24, 1945, and has since then been impacting the country. The United Nations main purpose according to the lecture notes is “ to provide a global additional structure through which states can sometimes settle conflicts with less reliance on the use of force , for whole purpose of the United Nations is to provide the globe a forum by which countries may settle disputes through this forum peacefully as opposed to relying on a force which has been the case historically” ( Kopalyan, Module 8). Thus meaning The United Nations was set up to handle problems peacefully rather than going to war to try and solve problems. “Powerful economic as well as political forces are at work to bring about a growing integration of the world community, and the United Nations and its related agencies are uniquely fitted to assist in the task” (Wilcox/Haviland,45). This was some of the reason that the United Nations was created.

Many may argue otherwise, due to its failures but through extensive research, the lead article undermines the importance of the impact of United Nations in today’s society. While conflict resolution and peacekeeping continue to be among its most visible efforts, the UN, along with its specialized agencies, is also engaged in a wide array of activities to improve people’s lives around the world – from disaster relief, through education and advancement of women, to peaceful uses of atomic energy. The United Nations also faces many challenges and global issues which includes accounting for mission size, composition in assessing the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping and balancing the actual capacity to protect civilians and living up to the expectation to protect every single civilian and lastly, battling the idea that the UN is not an effective mechanism in today’s society.

As the name suggests, the United Nations (UN), is an intergovernmental organisation to promote international co-operation, where it’s Security Council (SC) has a primary responsibility to withhold “peace and security” (United Nations n.d.) across the globe. In regards to its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the SC has continued to engage on an extreme agenda in “accordance with the principles and objectives set forth in the Charter of the United Nations” (United Nations 2015). The UN was arranged to determine the existence of a threat to peace and to take effective cooperative measures for the prevention and elimination of the threats to the peace and for the suppression of acts of aggression

This research is qualitative. When the research focuses on fields such as human behavior, strategy configuration, and policy assessment the qualitative approach is recognized as the appropriate scientific method (Tilaki and Hedayati, 2015;Polkinghorne, 1991). This study will examine the organizational structure of the United Nations in order to come to a conclusion as to a more efficient structure that could have been used during the