Understanding UN Security Council, Charter, Collective Security and Humanitarian Intervention

This study material from Desklib explains the role of UN Security Council in maintaining global peace and security, the UN Charter and its six main organs, the concept of collective security and humanitarian intervention. It also discusses the importance of global governance in resolving conflicts and social and economic issues.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TERMS............................................................................................................................................2
UN Security Council....................................................................................................................2
UN Charter...................................................................................................................................2
Collective Security.......................................................................................................................3
Humanitarian Intervention...........................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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TERMS
UN Security Council
The main role of United nations in global governance is to form political forum that
concern about major issues on the global economic agenda. As well as to maintain sustainability
by investigating four pillars of economy and environment. Moreover, Un security council main
duty is to maintained peace in internationally and security and to conduct operation. UN helps in
maintaining global peace and security as well as culture heritage and international law so that
commerce and justice is provided to them. In addition to this, the UN is very important in
maintaining global governance as it helps in resolving the conflicts between the parties as well as
to resolve the social and economic issues (Hurd, 2019). It has power that includes peacekeeping
operations as well as to establish international sanctions and authorization of military action
through security council resolution. It is the only UN body that have authority to issue binding
resolution to member states.
Thus, security council helps in dealing with the issues like political war between countries
in order to maintain peace. For example: In the war case between Indo – Pakistan UN has
closely encounter the case in order to maintain economy of world. Although for marinating the
global governance it should give advice to Un economic and social council, world bank to serve
their original mandates (Ege, 2020). In addition to this, it need to find means to communicate
with other global governance through formal debate in which it can involve general assembly
members. It should also establish relational institution and build connection between civil society
and private sector.
UN Charter
The Charter of United Nations, is a comprehensive government body comprising of the 6
main organs which are The Secretariat, The Security Council, International Court of Justice,
Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council and General Assembly. All the bodies
collectively focus on certain aspects such as maintenance of international security and peace
levels, focusing on achievement of higher living standards, meeting all the economic, health and
society related problems and various other issues such as race, religion, language and gender
(Musayev and Sadigbayli, 2018). The charter has an approximate number of 193 member
countries making most of the nations as its members.
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UN Charter is a comprehensive part of encouraging and promoting global governance by
its multiple areas of functioning. They foster peaceful resolution of disputes between countries,
help in regulating regional arrangements and trade practices and also prohibit breach or threats to
regulation of peace. Further, all the six governing bodies constituting in the UN Charter, serve
different areas of governance where General Assembly is the supreme body whose assent is
required on almost all the decisions taken by other councils. Security council focuses on taking
swift and strong measures whenever threat to security arises and avoid or diminish war like
scenarios (Istrefi, 2018). Economic and Social Council is related to setting up commissions and
plans for social and human right betterment and recording the facts and figures. International
Court of Justice also known as World Court acts as dispute resolution head for any problems that
might arise in all the six organs. Trusteeship ensures that trust territories are appointed and
function with the sole aspect of taking best possible decisions for their inhabitants which have
been assigned to them. Lastly, Secretariat, is the agenda setting and decision making body of the
UN Charter contributing in performing executive duties.
Collective Security
The term collective security refers to the concept of protecting peace and security of all the
nations i.e. in a global manner rather than it being an individual concern (Weitz, 2018). All the
member nations collectively identify that who exactly is aggressor i.e. one who has inflicted
violence or breached peace and what actions need to be taken for such threat. One of the major
prerequisites of collective security is that the member nation should be able to assemble military
force of a much greater strength as compared to the aggressor nation so that they can overpower
it. Also all the member nations need to comply with the fact that common good must supersede
their conflicting interests thus making them committed towards the objective of world peace.
While comparing with other arrangements such as collective defence and alliance security,
collective security is more comprehensive manner of maintaining peace (Deyermond, 2018). The
objective of global governance is fulfilled substantially through collective security as all the
members are assured of assistance and support in case of wars and unjustified military actions by
other states. Also, the cost involved in maintaining defence structure gets hugely regularized and
member states are able to distribute costs for other non- military areas.
Also, the fulfilment and compliance necessary for maintaining peace and security at global
level gets encouraged where aggressor are cognizant of the fact that the combined forces of the
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member nations would easily diminish any war related practices that might be carried out by
them. This automatically reduces the chances of wars.
Humanitarian Intervention
It basically means to prevent or stop the violation of human rights in country or particular
state. Although UN has given human rights to each individual so that it can live its life freely
and it have freedom of choice. Along with this, it can be in form of military attack between
state but it also affects the right of peace and safety of human. That is why it is known as
humanitarian intervention. Along with this, it is related to global governance as human rights
helps in avoiding the war between the countries. Such in recent case of Afghanistan many
citizen’s rights has been violated and people were killed brutally. Thus, for maintaining the peace
and protecting right all other countries has filed case in Un Security for taking proper action
against culprit. Moreover, it is related to global governance as it aims at protecting people from
unlawful intervention as well as to provide them with the right to live (Matias, 2020).
Although humanitarian is not just threat of military action or central features but also it
entails interfering the internal affairs or state though military force into specific territory or
airspace. It generally motivated by humanitarian objectives. This intervention is limited in
rescuing citizen in other state and it has been expanded beyond religious and ethically similar
groups. It has been found in case of India and China in which military intervention was
conducted by china at boarder of India.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Deyermond, R., 2018. The Collective Security Treaty Organization. In Routledge Handbook of
Russian Foreign Policy (pp. 421-429). Routledge.
Ege, j.,2020. What international bureaucrats (really) want: Administrative preferences in
international organization research. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism
and International Organizations. 26(4). pp.577-600.
Hurd, I., 2019. Legitimacy and contestation in global governance: Revisiting the folk theory of
international institutions. The Review of International Organizations. 14(4). pp.717-729.
Istrefi, K., 2018. Duty to Comply with Security Council Resolutions: The Force of the UN
Charter. In European Judicial Responses to Security Council Resolutions (pp. 54-76).
Brill Nijhoff.
Matias, D. M. S., 2020. Climate humanitarian visa: international migration opportunities as post-
disaster humanitarian intervention. Climatic Change. 160(1). pp.143-156.
Musayev, T.F. and Sadigbayli, R., 2018. The Purposes and Principles of the un Charter Origins,
Subsequent Developments in Law and Practice and (Mis) interpretation in the Context of
Unilateral Secession Claims in the osce Area. Security and Human Rights, 28(1-4),
pp.180-213.
Weitz, R., 2018. Assessing the collective security treaty organization: Capabilities and
vulnerabilities.
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