The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century
The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century

Author: Richard von Weizsacker

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 0788171305

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A report of the Independent Working Group on the Future of the U.N., convened by the Ford Foundation in 1993. The group sought to make a clear statement about the need to enhance and realign the U.N. Discusses the challenges to humanity at century's end, the future U.N. system, strengthening the U.N. for its second half-century, reaching the common goal, and a summary of principal recommendations. Points for strengthening the U.N. include providing security from the scourge of violence, improving global economic conditions, protecting the social fabric, and leadership, organization and resources.

The United Nations at Age Fifty
The United Nations at Age Fifty

Author: Christian Tomuschat

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 1995-10-25

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789041101457

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The 50th anniversary of the United Nations provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on what the world organization has been able to achieve during the first half century of its existence. The contributions assembled in this volume all purport to ascertain whether and to what extent it has been possible to promote the community values acknowledged by the UN Charter through methods and mechanisms in accordance with the rule of law. The work does not confine itself to focusing solely on developments of the past, and provides insights which can be used as beacons for the future. The volume has been divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to the institutions and mechanisms designed to maintain international peace and security. The second part addresses the additional tasks of the UN. Contributions are from experts who, as nationals of countries enjoying special privileges within the UN system or seeking to obtain such a position, are intimately familiar with the policies of their governments, what specific objectives they would like to see pursued by the competent organs, and what changes in the institutional structure they may suggest.

The United Nations
The United Nations

Author: Geoffrey Leslie Simons

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9780312121341

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This book begins by describing the ideas and circumstances that led to the birth of the United Nations. Particular attention is given to the League of Nations as the precursor to what would become the truly global UN organisation. Aspects of the Cold War and the so-called New World Order are highlighted as shaping the two broad phases of UN evolution. Detailed profiles are given of the main conflicts that have involved the United Nations through its first half-century. Here emphasis is given to the impact of the United States as the principal founder-member and the main post-Second World War hegemonic power. The author argues that the United States typically coerces the United Nations (and such UN-linked bodies as GATT, the IMF and the World Bank) to serve the strategic and economic interests of the United States and world capitalism.

A United Nations for the Twenty-First Century
A United Nations for the Twenty-First Century

Author: Bourantonis

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2023-09-14

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 9004639071

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This collective work brings together scholars, international civil servants and field practitioners who examine a wide range of theoretical and practical problems as well as challenges confronting the world and the United Nations at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The papers in this volume have been organized under themes which focus on problem areas and challenges that mankind must unavoidably deal with collectively in the years ahead, much as it has attempted to do during the past half-century. The contributors address the triangular relationship between peace, security and development and raise questions about the relevance of the UN system in the decades to come. The authors do so through reflection on past experiences and relevant philosophical inquiries. They examine specific cases and experiences that are representative of the relevance or irrelevance of past collective actions in the security and non-security fields and suggest new ideas and concepts that attempt to marry theory and practice. In this connection, aspects of peacemaking and peacekeeping, arms control, economic development, human rights and the critical role of education are amongst the topics analyzed and assessed. One of the underlying themes of the volume is that the challenges of the twenty-first century will be of unprecedented magnitude. Unless the UN system is reformed and revitalized it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant.

UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect
UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect

Author: Annie Herro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317812301

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This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice. The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent UN service to improve UN peace operations as well as to operationalise the emerging norm of the ‘responsibility to protect’ civilians from atrocity crimes. The UNEPS proposal has received limited support. The book argues that interest in, and support for, the UNEPS proposal is determined by perceptions that it would erode state sovereignty, the extent to which the principles of the proposal are consistent with actors’ views on the world and perceptions on whether UNEPS will realistically be capable of contributing to the workings of the UN and regional peacekeeping systems in areas that are seen to be deficient. This book makes the case for localising the UNEPS proposal so that it is more consistent with attitudes of those consulted for this research. It concludes that the development of a series of less ambitious proposals could be the first steps to creating a rapidly deployable service with the mandate to prevent atrocity crimes. This book will be of much interest to students of peace operations, the Responsibility to Protect, international organisations, IR and security studies.