The Maintenance Of International Peace And Security

The attacks affected the civilians living in the region, leaving as many as 300,000 dead and 2.8 million displaced (Darfur Conflict). Aicha el Basri, a former UN spokesperson, stated, “In one instance last September, peacekeepers "watched" the pro-government Janjaweed militia group carry out an assault on civilians travelling in a truck, but did not intervene (Darfur Conflict).” The UN hasn’t acted on the attacks occurring right in front of them. The civilians of Darfur feel the UN has betrayed them, by standing back and not protecting them. The UN organization, the African Union Mission In Darfur (UNAMID), has also failed to bring safety to the civilians. According to Ahmed H. Adam, “...UNAMID neither has a mandate nor the equipment for intervention, so even in the midst of conflict; it is unable to effectively respond (Adam).” The destruction of the population by their own government is the most recent failure of the UN, since the genocide in Darfur still continues

China has been working on the Sudanese Government and other parties through exchanging visits, sending a special envoy, making phone conversation, and conducting coordination in various places including the UN. Under China’s presidency, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1769, paving the way for an AU-UN hybrid peacekeeping force entering Darfur. The Chinese Government has also sent a special envoy to Sudan and continued with its efforts. Besides, China is the first country to commit to and take part in the peace-keeping mission in the Darfur region. At present, the advance team of 140 military engineers has entered the Darfur region and the rest is to phase in shortly. China appreciates and supports the efforts made by the AU , UN envoys on Darfur, and will donate fifty thousand dollars to the UN Trust Fund, which finances the envoys’ mediating work. China traded weapons to South Sudan in order to receive the precious oil. China is respecting their policy which is non-interference in their country which results them in not prevent/ resolving the crisis in South

The UN and the US government are accredited for deploring conflict situations as well as contributing humanitarian aid, and this is what these two organizations did in Rwanda and Darfur. However, the UN did not do anything to punish or prevent the genocides that took place in these two countries. The US government promised to support the peace talk’s agreement in Darfur and hold the perpetrators accountable for their acts. It never kept that promise since nothing has been done. So far, the UN’s Security Council has also failed in its peace keeping mission effeorts, and is instead pressuring Sudan with words only. No solid steps have been made to bring the wrong doers into justice (Shapiro).

Darfur is the western region of the African country of Sudan. Currently, the people of Darfur have been continually attacked by the Sudanese army and by proxy-militia controlled by the Sudanese government. Families are being uprooted and starved, children tormented and murdered by the thousands and women raped without punishment. Innocent civilians in Darfur continue to be victims of unthinkable brutality. Many people have become homeless and seek protection in refugee camps in Chad. Yet despite its outward appearance, Darfur has a vast ethnic diversity and a complex, ancient system of resolving conflict. Genocide has occurred in several places around the world, but in Darfur there are certain reasons why it

Other nations, as humanitarianly inclined as they may be, will always put their interests - whether it be geo-political, economic, military or social - ahead of all other considerations. It is an inescapable fact that many countries are often reluctant to act in a situation which does not directly impact their own welfare and sometimes actively obstruct action by the UN or other forces to satisfy their self-serving purposes. As Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), stated when explaining the reasoning behind the UN's inability to act during the Darfur genocide, "..., it's because Sudan is obstructionist, China is complacent, and Canada and the rest of the international

In recent times, the media has highlighted the genocide that has been occurring in Darfur, Sudan. Darfur, Sudan is a country roughly the size of the state of Texas (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Genocide is the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group of people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do away with them all (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Beginning around 2003, according to Darfur Scores (n.d.), “the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia have used rape, displacement, organized starvation, threats against aid workers and mass murder. Violence, disease, and displacement continue to kill thousands of innocent Darfurians every month.”

Next, the Sudanese government violates article #3 by supplying the Janjaweed military regime with military power and covering up military crimes. The government of Sudan has interfered with anyone who has tried to stop the Janjaweed regime. Along with this they have covered up or attempt to cover up the military investigation against the Janjaweed government. Since these acts of violence have been allowed to go on a total of 400,000 Darfurian innocent civilians have been killed, (“Facts on Darfur” NP).The United Nations along with the ICC are acting out against this, on March 4, 2009 had a warrant for the arrest of Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir.  Finally, the Darfur has violated the right to life of article #3 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. The people of Darfur of unarmed and are up agianst a government backed military regime. This has caused much unrest for the people, and lives are being infringed upon. People are being slaughtered daily by a ruthless regime, without ever having a chance to live life.

Particularly, Darfur, a genocide beginning in 2003 and carrying on into present day. Darfur is a small region located in Western Sudan housing 6 million people and is approximately the size of Spain. This genocide is driven by the major conflict between Arab grazers and non-Arab farmers. Competition for resources is what played a hefty role in these conflicts arising. In Western Sudan, oil was discovered and the land in Darfur became increasingly known. Thousands of refugees have fled into neighboring republics. The Sudanese Air Force and Janjaweed, a government-supported Arab tribesman, raided and bombed non-Arab villages in Darfur bringing them to a burn as well as terrorizing and slaughtering the civilians with the goal of creating a Pan-Arab state. Women and children left in these villages were raped, and men were enslaved. Much like the Bosnian genocide, slaughtered bodies were thrown into wells to drain out their blood in an attempt to contaminate the drinking water. The government has forcefully expelled aid agencies jeopardizing the conditions of displaced civilians. Unlike Cambodia, the United States has not fell quiet about the Darfur genocide. In 2006, President Bush sent for a number of international troops in Darfur to be doubled. As a result, British Prime Minister called the European Union to team up with the United States as a unified response to the crisis at hand. Two years later, the United Nations issued a United Nations-African Union mission to maintain peace. Immediately following, 26,000 troops were ordered to protect civilians. According to the United Nations, 2.7 million people are internally displaced, 600,000 have been killed in 13 years, and more than 350,000 refugees have currently fled to neighboring cities. The Sudanese government trains and provides arms to Arab militias to continuously kill, terrorize, and destroy non-Arabs in Darfur

Since 2003, the black African farmers of western Sudan's Darfur region have been victims of genocide. The genociders are Sudan's Arab-dominated government and nomadic Arab militia groups known as the Janjaweed. Darfur’s residents have suffered from discrimination, lack of resources, education, health services, etc. There is a large gap between the resources that the government has invested in Darfur and those invested in riverine Sudan. A fact that clearly illustrates the lack of safety towards the Muslims in the Darfur region is, “Thousands of villages were destroyed, pillaged, burned to the ground, and residents dislocated and killed amongst the violence. Only the villages of African tribes were bombed and attacked; nearby Arab villages were left unharmed, “ (Combat Genocide 1). This quote emphasizes the fact that because of the violence occurring, residents are getting killed or being force to be “dislocated.” In 2009 the United Nations estimated that there were 2.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur and approximately 270,000 refugees in eastern Chad (Combat Genocide 1). The battles between the rebel groups and the Janjaweed spread into Chad, which led to tensions between Chad and Sudan. Chad had huge problems with dealing with the huge number of refugees (Combat Genocide 1). In the refugee camps, the Janjaweed captured, attacked and raped women when they go outside refugee camps to collect firewood. Many refugees who fled their homes continued to flee from repeat attacks by the Janjaweed throughout Darfur. The genocide of the Darfur people have clearly taken a toll on the persecuted people, creating a life of violence for

The video “On our Watch,” provides the viewer with detailed accounts about the first genocide of the 21st century. The images of death and destruction in Darfur, coupled with the startling murder and rape statistics, clearly suggests that the United Nations (UN), an organization designed to maintain international peace and security failed to protect the people of Darfur from the Janjaweed militias or the corrupt Sudanese government. Although, the UN and the world had embraced the slogan “Never Again,” after 800,000 innocent civilians were slaughtered in Rwanda, history would repeat itself in Bosnia, Darfur, and Chad. Sudan’s campaign of genocide, its economic and political ties with China and Russia, combined with failed peace talks, as well

In March 2004, the world was taken aback when Mukesh Kapila, a United Nations (UN) Human Rights Coordinator for Sudan, announced during an interview with the UN that the “world’s greatest humanitarian crisis” was occurring in Darfur. Until then, the world had been concerned by the raging civil war in South Sudan and the peace talks associated with it. Darfur was a nowhere, unknown and uncared about for centuries. Suddenly newspapers were wild with reports of the 21st Century’s first genocide, and support was being drummed up from all corners of the world. But then the Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004 occurred and what is known as “world opinion” moved on to bigger disasters. Yet the crisis in Darfur continued; however, now organizations such as the UN, European Union (EU), and African Union (AU) began to take interest, develop aid packages, and planned for intervention. Yet still, in 2016, the crisis continues. Several

The government of Sudan, a country in Northeast Africa, is committing a horrendous crime against humanity. Genocide is raging on in Western Sudan against poor, helpless, innocent people. It is actually the ten year “anniversary” since the beginning of the Darfur conflict and the genocide still continues on. There are over 1.4 million people who still do not have homes to come back to, and the numbers stack higher every day. Bombings have not stopped, as there was one as recent as February 2013. The Darfur conflict in the beginning was just a brewing disaster and it eventually led to the horrendous genocides in the early 2000s due to early settlement disputes, climate change, and radical Islamic

The United Nations, with its rigid moral and political limitations against force, has become a benchmark of peace and a social achievement of modern times. From war torn Europe, the United Nations developed from five major powers with an initial goal to prevent the spread of warfare through peaceful means and to establish and maintain fundamental human rights. Through the past fifty years, this organization has broadened its horizons with auxiliary organizations from peace keeping missions to humanitarian aid, to economic development. However, in a modern example of ethnic cleansing, the UN faces new a new role as a bystander as its power is bypassed by NATO forces. The UN, however, promises to be an

The purpose of this paper is to examine the six chapters assigned for this week. First, in Weiss et al.’s first chapter entitled The Theory of UN Collective Security, the authors elaborate on the foundation and purpose of the United Nations serves on a global scale by means of collectivity. Second, chapter four entitled Evolving Security Operations: Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, and Syria, provides specific examples of relations between the United Nations and individual nation-states, the progress the UN has made in developing countries, and how the resistance the UN faces affect the organization as well as the population they serve. Third, chapter ten of Weiss et al.’s book, Sustainable Development as Process: UN Organizations and Norms focuses on the humanitarian efforts of the UN, especially in the focus of establishing self-sufficiency in developing countries. Then the three chapters in Pease’s book, Security, The Environment, and Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues, focus on three key issues facing the international organizations today.

The UN has "[A]cknowledge[d] that we are living in an interdependent and global world and that many of today 's threats recognize no national boundaries, are interlinked and must be tackled at the global, regional, and national levels in accordance with the Charter and international law" (2005 World Summit Outcome). After the world had entered into the Post-Cold War era, traditional conceptions of security had become the global security and human security. The International Government Organizations (IGOs) and United Nations realized that wars and chaos began to be internationalized. And the human security, such as human rights, poverty, and the environment, has received attention gradually by the public. There are many issues that have affected the global security in recent decades. The Iraq war began in 2003, and it estimated that more than one hundred thousand civilians died during the war. On 11 March 2010, The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster happened in Japan, and fifteen thousand people died in this disaster. The Arab Spring began in 2010 in Tunisia, and then spread to 18 Arab countries in Mid-East and Africa. The United Nation, established in 1945 after the World War II, has the responsibility to maintain the peace and security. While the UN is helpful in some situations, there are times when the UN should not intervene. It is a general idea that the performance of UN in the conflict is not as good as the performance in the human security.