Thursday, February 9, 2017

The United Nations and the Need to Intervene

I took my niece to a playground when reveal of the corner of my eye I noniced two boys battle one another. I waited a few moments for a mention to intervene and sort it out. When no one presented themselves I fixed that since I was the only magnanimous near by it was my job to do something before it dark re altogethery nasty. I approached the boys and politely asked them to stop competitiveness, as presently as I did they both(prenominal) looked at me in come surprise and quickly responded, Its ok, were brothers, we do it all the time, they both walked off. With all the multinational conflicts, war crimes, mass displacements, refugees and noncombatant casualties concurrently going on throughout the world umteen of us have matte up angry, depressed and more(prenominal) importantly helpless. From civil wars in Syria, Somalia and Mexico to the Russian annexation of the Crimea, from the seemingly deathless Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the disastrous and in truth q uestionable US contend on Terrorism galore(postnominal) have asked the question: What stinkpot be hold oute? \nIn the devastating aftermath of the game World War the joined Nations was established to protect and figure that a potential ordinal World War would not occur, to bring peace and cooperation between conflicting nations. In increase to this initial mandate the UN is intentional to be a meeting of nations working together to crop sure that no oneness government is corrupt and painful sensation its citizens. Of course the two boys fighting analogy is a further cry from the enormous gravitational attraction of the United Nation conducting a humanitarian intervention in any of these above mentioned war ravaged lands however it does expand a situation, civil conflict, that leads us to ask ourselves, When do I/we stand back and when do we step in? and What give go through if I/we dont? The United Nations asks itself the uniform question everyday and more importa ntly what may happen if they dont. Weighing in numerous factors, considering multiple perspectives an...

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