The UN in current conflicts and crisis

1. Class 4 The UN in current conflicts and crisis

Reading: Lättilä & Ylönen

2. Rwanda (8 votes) Israeli-Palestinian conflict (6) Syria (5) Yemen (3) Ukraine (3) China – Uygurs (2) Haiti, Kosovo, Kashmir,

Your „mismanaged crisis“
Rwanda (8 votes)
Israeli-Palestinian conflict (6)
Syria (5)
Yemen (3)
Ukraine (3)
China – Uygurs (2)
Haiti, Kosovo, Kashmir, Myanmar, Cambodia, Srebrenica, Iraq, Czechoslovakia
Cold War, Refugees, funding shortage, climate crisis,…

3.

Your „mismanaged crisis“

4.

???
https://reliefweb.int/map/world/peace-operations-20202021
https://www.zif-berlin.org/en/publications/zif-world-map-peace-operations-2019

5. Alternatives to the UN

6.

???

7.

Limits of the UN mission mandate
Your ideas?

8. UN Security council agreement failures – Ukraine, Syria, Iraq..

Limits of the UN mission mandate
UN Security council agreement
failures – Ukraine, Syria, Iraq..

9. Security Council (UNSC)

Membership: 5 Permanent members
and 10 Non-permanent members – elected for 2 years
time-period by GA
Decision-making: Each member has 1 vote, to approve procedural
issues – majority by 9 votes, fundamental issues – 9 votes and no
veto by PM (unanimity of superpowers)
(1965 Reform: 11 → 15 members)
Responsibilities:
– International peace and security – Implementation of Measures
http://www.un.org/en/sc/documents/resolutions/2018.shtml
– Plans for arms control and de-militarization
– Engagement in conflicts and disputes
– Classification of situations as threats to peace and security
– Requests expert opinions from judges of the ICJ

10. Formulation/wording of the mandate - enforcement - disengagement - observation - protection

Limits of the UN mission mandate
Formulation/wording of the mandate
- enforcement
- disengagement
- observation
- protection
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50864639/cambodia-has-sent-7523-un-peacekeepers-to-nine-countries-in-15-years/

11. Acceptance by the conlict actors

Limits of the UN mission mandate
Acceptance by the
conlict actors
https://peacekeeping
.un.org/en/ourhistory
Count Folke Bernadotte

12. Willingness and ability of the participants - domestic dimension - security dimension - HR and financial aspect - neutrality

Limits of the UN mission mandate
Willingness and ability of the participants
- domestic dimension
- security dimension
- HR and financial
aspect
- neutrality

13. https://www.mapsofworld.com/answers/world/many-personnel-nations-contribute-un-peacekeeping-force/#

Where are they from
???
https://www.mapsofworld.com/answers/world/many-personnel-nations-contribute-unpeacekeeping-force/#

14.

Next week:
Universalism and the
Challenges of Culture
Reading: Jack Donnelly
on cultural relativism
Your homework for Monday: Does the
international („universal“) community deny
you (or your community/country) some of
your cultural (values related) rights?

15.

WHERE: MUP Prague-Strašnice building, Dubešská 900/10, Room 305
GUEST: Hannah Kaviani – Prague based Iranian journalist, Radio
Farda (Persian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Insider´s look into weeks long protests and violence in the Islamic Republic of
Iran. What is the driving force behind the unrest? Is the ruling regime
endangered?