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UN as a Representation of Contemporary World, Established after the Second World War, United Nations has become one of the pillars of the post-world war politics and international system. If compared to United Nations; no other organisation can parallel United Nations; size, legitimacy, and ambitions. United Nations can be considered as a catalyst for peace in contemporary world. United Nations was created in 1945, after world war, and currently has 193 member states.
The purpose of the organisation is to maintain and safeguard peace and security of the world. United Nation’s former Secretary once stated, “Sitting in this room all of us can find examples of the United Nations’ failures and setbacks. But the United Nations at its best and worst is a mirror of our world. It reflects our divisions and disagreements as well as our hopes and convictions”. The question is how the United Nations represents the image of our world. United Nation’s mirror today’s world, because it represents the opportunities and challenges faced by the nations, and how different members i.e. countries respond to the different situations.
In order to analyse whether the United Nations represent the realities of today’s world it is important to understand the functionalities first. The objective of the United Nations is to promote and safeguard world’s peace and security. Moreover, UN as a Representation of Contemporary World to work on humanitarian grounds and help the developing and less developed nations. Thus, there are separate council’s such as Security Council for security, UNHCR for refugees, UNICEF for education, similarly there are other council’s working on poverty and health etc. United Nations is not the world government, it does not regulate the world, it facilitates contemporary international system, but providing regulations and objectives that can help improving the contemporary systems.
The purpose of this essay is not to discuss the weaknesses or strengths of the organisation but to understand if it mirror’s the realities of world. In order to understand that it is important to evaluate the work done by different councils of the United Nations globally and what they are trying to achieve. Humanitarian councils of the United Nations are working to achieve humanitarian goals, such as better education, health care, UN as a Representation of Contemporary World eradicating poverty and facilitating refugees. One of the examples can be UNHCRs plan to safely repatriate or shift Afghan refugees from Pakistan, in order to settle refugees and also to help Pakistan in settling the refugees. This can be an example of how the United Nation’s mirror the good in the world. Different nations working in collaboration on humanitarian grounds, and facilitating settlement of citizens of a different country and providing them security and protection shows the good will of countries and their ability to work together. Moreover, UN as a Representation of Contemporary World an organisation that has 193 member countries shows the reality and the willingness of the countries to work together.
According to realist theory, a nation should be strong in defence in order to protect its sovereignty and rights, and should not depend only on alliances to protect her national security. Establishment of the United Nations is essentially to discard that idea, and bring nations together to work together instead of against each other. United Nation’s Security Council’s objective is to stabilise countries situation in time of war, to ensure that stronger nations do not breach the sovereignty of smaller nations i.e. to maintain peace and security. UNSC works with variety of methods and procedures available to the council, UN as a Representation of Contemporary World and the procedures and methods are created according to the Charter of the United Nations. As mentioned earlier the objective of the Security Council is to ensure quick and effective actions towards the safeguarding international peace and security. The purpose of the rules and regulations is to ensure the support of the wider membership…
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