The UN As Global Police Force And Negotiation Facilitator

The UN as Global Police Force and Negotiation Facilitator
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Introduction
The United Nations (UN) refers to a transnational agency that plays the role of promoting global peace and security, attaining international cooperation and developing friendly relations among countries. It is an agency involved in peacekeeping and facilitating the actions of countries. The global agency also helps countries in handling different social and economic problems by promoting respect for human rights and advancing internal law. This paper will evaluate the role of the UN as a global negotiation facilitator and police force between potentially hostile or hostile nations.[Conforti B, Focarelli C. The law and practice of the United Nations. BRILL; 2016 Aug 4.]
The scope of UN authority to act as an enforcement institution and negotiation facilitator
The UN is the biggest and the most powerful international organization in the globe. The multinational agency was developed on Oct 24, 1945, after the Second World War to maintain peace and prevent future international conflicts. The organization had 51 member states during its foundation, but presently they increased to 193 after changing from the League of Nations which was ineffective.[Bailey MA, Strezhnev A, Voeten E. Estimating dynamic state preferences from United Nations voting data. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2017 Feb; 61 (2):430-56.]
The UN’s scope of authority, which provides the agency with the power to act as a negotiation facilitator and an enforcement institution, is outlined in article 1 of the UN Charter. The objective of the UN, according to article 1 of the charter, is to promote global peace and security. The organization in achieving this purpose has the power of taking adequate measures to prevent and eradicate threats to peace maintenance through several actions such as suppressing acts of aggression. The UN can also contain other peace breaches and solve conflicts through peaceful means in line with international law and principles of justice. The agency, therefore, settles conflicts between nations that seem to result in the breaching of peace.[Thakur R. The United Nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect. Cambridge University Press; 2016 Dec 13.]
The UN also has the mandate to create friendly relations among countries founded on the principle of respecting equal rights and people's self-determination. The organization achieves this objective by taking adequate measures to enhance universal peace and social development. The UN also has an aim of attaining international cooperation among the member states, which assists the agency in solving issues that relate to the social, economic and cultural or humanitarian nature. The organization can achieve this objective by promoting respect for basic freedoms and human rights for humanity without considering the race, sex, language, religion, and class of a person. The UN thus harmonizes the actions of countries to achieve these shared objectives.
The mission of the UN is to ensure global peace by facilitating and negotiating for amicable solutions among nations that are in conflicts. The organization’s mission of preserving global peace was initially affected by the cold war. However, the missions of the agency have majorly consisted of troops that are lightly armed together with military observers that are unarmed that play the role of reporting, monitoring, and developing confidence.[Conforti B, Focarelli C. The law and practice of the United Nations. BRILL; 2016 Aug 4.]
The membership of the agency significantly increased after widespread decolonization in 1960, which resulted in gaining of independence of more than 80 colonies and 11 trust territories under the Trusteeship Council. The organization’s budget for social and economic development had exceeded its budget for peacekeeping by early 1970s. The UN enhanced its field operations after the cold war and took a broad category of multiple global responsibilities.[Weiss, Thomas G., and Sam Daws, eds. The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. Oxford University Press, 2018.]
The UN was formed after a more comprehensive process of consultation that began in the aftermath of World War II. This formation aimed to develop an effective system that avoided conflict by ignoring destructive and single-sided international policies as before the world wars. Moreover, in the current increasingly global world, migratory movements will continue to impact the global society and to lace a web of links in sending people and communities to new places. The universal language demographics as well as cultural practices will need to adjust to these changes continually. The current immigration and asylum challenges in the world are as much as a problem in global integration as it is in human rights and humanitarian assistance to the dispossessed people.
The Type of Problems that the UN Seeks to Resolve and Whether the Seriousness of These Problems Warrants A Global Instead Of A Regional or State Response
The UN seeks to resolve issues of global concern, which require international cooperation. The issues that are solved by the UN require not only state and regional response but also require cooperation from every nation in the world. The organization is an essential facilitator of international peace as well as human and economic development. Some of the significant issues that the UN has sought to address are examined below.[Conforti B, Focarelli C. The law and practice of the United Nations. BRILL; 2016 Aug 4.7. Weiss, Thomas G., and Sam Daws, eds. The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations. Oxford University Press, 2018.]
Promoting worldwide security and peace
The organization was developed after the Second World War to maintain international peace and security. The UN achieves this objective through conflict prevention and assisting in the process of making peace to the parties involved in a conflict. The organization develops friendship by facilitating an enabling environment for peace to flourish. The Security Council is an arm of the UN which is tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that there are international peace and security. The organization also has other offices and agencies such as the General Assembly, which coordinate to play critical complementary roles that ensure there is peace in the world.[]
Protecting fundamental human rights
The UN Charter stresses the promotion and protection of human rights as a guiding principle and a vital objective of t...