Is the United Nations an effective organization for peacekeeping and peacemaking?

Question

Is the United Nations an effective organization for peacekeeping and peacemaking?

Answer 1

It has the potential to really be a great organization but I would agree with the answer above. The UN can only be as effective as the member states that make up not only the GA but more importantly the permanent members of the Security Council. I can not think of a single case where the UN has been effective in peacemaking. There have been many instances where they could have been the life saving force that was needed and national politics in the member states prevented the UN from having the man power and resources needed to be effective in the area.

Answer 2

No, they have not done a thing to stop genocide in the Sudan. The UN appoints Libya. the head of Human Rights?

All the UN is good for is, demanding more money from the USA. Not to mention the "Oil For Food" Scandal.

Answer 3

It is good for Peacemaking better than alternative. It can do nothing as long as people are not willing to accept alternatives to wars. Oil while reason for war in Sudan would be just one of many even if Solar Power were placed in Sudan.Wars would be fought over Solar Power then.Would require organization more like Switzerland with citizen Peacekeepers or members more like a regular army in strength when required. Answering to U.N.  and Human Rights not   Politics. Best way for citizens in each countries to become Peacekeepers in own countries keep peace by being that instead of warriors. Citizens of world defend eachother. Human Supremacist Attitudes rejected.Racism involves human as center of life devaluing life other than human,destroying Ecosystem. U.N. could help.

Answer 4

The United Nations is as effective as its members, especially the permanent members of the Security Council (USA, UK, France, China, Russia) allow it to be.If the UN fails in peacekeeping the permanent five should take the blame and not push it off on the permament UN staff.

The UN could be a very effective peace keeping organ if it was allowed to do things. It is not in Dafur because influential powers will not allow it to be effective.

Answer 5

The UN has long out-lived the purpose for which it was originally intended to serve, which intention, quite frankly, was never representative of the innumerate nations to any degree of sufficiency but rather was a conception formulated by Western Nations -- primarily that of the United States -- that carry in the interest of Western Nations and those of the few nations otherwise that pander to Western aims, and so masked under a guise of international diplomacy.  And a guise it all it is; affectation, window dressing.

The great incentive for any nation has always and ever been to act in its own best interests.  And as each a sovereign nation, each affirms its self-reliance, thus had and has only the incentive to ensure its own perpetuity and self-defense.  And each foreign state possesses its own foreign ministry and has little cause to confer authorities of foreign relations to any body other than to its own foreign ministers.

The true UN has always and ever been NATO and is but a euphemism for what is really USA.

Has the UN an upside, is it exotic?  'Yes.  Who among us would not revere holding a seat in such an august body.  But, then, anything created and sustained in this world has its upside.  There is dark, there is light.  Is the UN in principle tenable?  No, and therein lies its whole weakness.  'Maybe not if ever has its principles been sound ones that were backed by potent application: no sovereign nation has any cause to abide any Collective that dares poke around in its internal affairs.  The United Nations shares little more than expediency at best and unless re-tooled and re-set had as well resolve to termination.  The world has outgrown it.

Answer 6

no, that is not their purpose, they tell you it is the purpose, but it's main purpose is to implement a world order fashioned after the british system which is based on roman civil law (serfdom) you know slave/master class. where the few on the top own everything and you have to pay for the right to live. eventually they want to be the only ones to own guns and control the armies and all other countries disarming. of course I think disarming every country is a pipe dream really. they are working on implementing control over the usa armies, sometimes using them in un operations hence the blue helmets. by the way why blue?

why is the flag blue?

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