United Nations: The Wounded Dove

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United Nations: The Wounded Dove

Filip Stojkovic

Mrs. Dersch

Senior Seminar

May 4th 2005


 An organization created to unify the world, to protect us from each other in the ultimate goal of creating world prosperity and unity between one another in the hope of stopping another world war of occurring. This organization is called “The UN’s.”

The idea of a first peace organization was come with up towards the end world war one (1914-1918). This organization was called “The League of Nations,” and was initiated after World War one. This organization had many flaws and could not stop the Germany once again from trying to take over Europe. This thus was the start of World War two.

World War two (1939-1945) was split up into two groups, the Allies and the Axis. The Axis being primarily the Germans and their close allies, which consisted of the Italians, Japanese and Turks. The other group, called the Allies consisted of the nations of America, Great Britain, France, China and Russia.

Towards the end of the war, Europe was left into ruins, its economy was in disasters and people did not have homes to go back to, when the war was over. This lead to some of the allied leaders to meet and talk on what the future should bring. One of these meetings was held between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (The UN - HLS). Though when this meeting took place, America still was not in the war, but were still helping by aiding the Allies, with supplies. Officially the UN’s sprung up, during a secret meeting in August 1941 on board of the worship “Prince of Wales” (The UN - HLS). Though officially, the UN’s was introduced to the world by Roosevelt in January 1942 and was signed by twenty six nations (The UN - HLS). So the framers of the UN were the countries of America and Great Britain, but the other Big Allied Nations received the same powers as the Framers themselves. These five Allied Nations became permanent members and shared equal power (US, Britain, France, USSR, and China).

“At no time in history has there been a more necessary meeting then this one…you members of this conference are to be architects of the better world. In your hands rest’s our future.” Though they do not do as much for our future as they could and say they do. In theory the UN’s overall needs reforms, but when broken down and viewed into the separate branch’s, some of these branches do more then we think, but yet the other branches are a waste of our money and need to be reformed. The UN is an outdated organization, which no country seems to take seriously, not even the countries that created its charters. This is because it is full of people who only care about being members of the organization and receiving large amount money for working within the UN.

        First of understanding the purpose of the UN’s is very important. The framers of the UN’s came up with the following outlined hopes for a better world. These ideas were called the “Atlantic Charter” (The UN - HLS). The main ideas of this charter were that; “all countries should have a democratic government, all countries would engage in trade freely with one another, all countries would share in world prosperity, and all counties would seek to reduce their weaponry” (The UN - HLS). The ‘Big five’ though drew up their plans for the international organization, they proposed the following ideas;  “The title of the new international body would be UN’s, its purpose would be to maintain international security and peace, it would seek to develop friendly relationships amongst all nations, it would try to tackle international economic, social and humanitarian problems. It would act as a hub for all nations to act together so that all the nations could be towards achieving the good for whole of the world” (The UN - HLS).

Thus the ‘Atlantic charter’ created six separate branches in the UN’s. These consisted of the; General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justices and Secretariat. The General Assembly’s task is to decide on issues of international peace and security. Within this assembly all the members are represented there equally. For a decision to be passed the vote requires a two thirds majority (The UN - HLS). The Security Council on the other hand is a smaller assembly which is given the task of “securing tranquility and peace.” It consist of 11 members in total, five of which are permanent (USA, Russia, GB, China, France), the other six are rotating members and are elected by the general assembly. For a proposal to pass in the security council it needs 7 members to pass and five of these must be permanent members because anyone of the permanent members have the power to veto a proposal. The Security Council has the ability to recommend a blockade or other financial impositions and can call for military force to take action by the UN (The UN - HLS). Therefore the Security Council is where all the major decisions are made. The UN International Court of Justice is the main judicial body and it contains fifteen members. Out of the fifteen members there can only be to members from the same country at one given time (The UN - HLS). The Last Branch is the Secretariat. This branch contains one member and he is called the Secretary General and he acts as a sort of president of the UN’s, he runs the UN’s. This man or woman is elected by the general assembly.

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Early in the life span of the UN’s it started to win wide support by all nations and new members entered it rapidly. It gained a certain prestige due to certain successes it had in the early years. “From 1945 to the 1970s, the UN’s looked to be a strong successor to the failed League of Nations” (UN and Problems). Few of the more known successes were in Mozambique, Cambodia, Angola, Haiti and Congo. Even today some people still find the UN’s a worthy organization. One of the first successes came in Mozambique. Under UN’s monitoring the thirty year civil ...

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