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The UN and Contemporary Governance

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1945 by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security. It aims to prevent war, protect people, and advance human development. Antonio Guterres is the current UN Secretary General. Some of the UN's key roles include peacekeeping, protecting human rights, resolving international disputes, reducing poverty, and responding to humanitarian crises. However, the UN also faces challenges like accommodating interests of all member states, unreliable funding, and increasing demands on its resources and capabilities.

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The UN and Contemporary Governance

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1945 by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security. It aims to prevent war, protect people, and advance human development. Antonio Guterres is the current UN Secretary General. Some of the UN's key roles include peacekeeping, protecting human rights, resolving international disputes, reducing poverty, and responding to humanitarian crises. However, the UN also faces challenges like accommodating interests of all member states, unreliable funding, and increasing demands on its resources and capabilities.

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The United Nations and

Contemporary Global
Governance
What is International
Organization?
The international organizations is helping to set
the internal agenda, mediating political bargaining,
providing a place for political initiatives and acting as
catalysts for coalition-formation.
They facilitate cooperation and coordination
among member nations.
International Organization
International Organization means public
international organization or governmental
organization, that is to say an organization created by
sovereign states and whose functioning is regulated
by international law, not the law of given country.
There are hundreds of IOs, some operate at the
global level ( E.g. UN, WTO, World Bank), others at
the regional level ( EC/EU, OAS, NATO, ASEAN, AU).
Two Types of International
Organization:
• Intergovernmental (IGO)
Able to enact "Supranational law", which is legal
control, derived from either a treaty or exerted by an
NGO, which nations agree be bound by in addition to
their own domestic laws
• Non governmental (NGO)
No international legal authority, can only provide
persuasive recommendations
Example of International
Organization
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• World Trade organization (WTO)
Example of Non- Governmental
Organizations
• Charity organizations
• Sector, specific organization health, education,
women, youth etc.
• Human rights groups
• Community Based Organizations (CBO)
The United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental
organizations responsible for maintaining
international peace and security, developing friendly
relations among nations, achieving international
cooperation and being a center for harmonizing the
actions of nations.
What is the United Nations?
Is an international organizations founded in 1945
after the 2nd world war by 51 countries committed
to maintaining international peace and security.
What is the importance of the
United Nations?
The aim of the United Nations system is to prevent
war from happening, restoring, security protecting
people and advancing human development and
social progress.
Why do celebrating the United
Nations?
That because this day is a symbol of cultural
diversity, The United Nations are famous for their
work un disaster relief, humanitarian aid, peace
keeping and international unity.
Every 24 of October we celebrate its as a
reminder of the importance of diversity, culture and
the spirit of brother hood.
Who is the Leader of UN?
Antonio Guterres is the current secretary General of the
United Nations.
Aims and objectives of the United
Nations.
• To maintain international peace and security.
• To develop friendly relations among nations of the basis
of equality and the principle of self determination
• To foster world wide cooperation in solving
economic, social, cultural and humanitarian
problems.
Challenges of the United Nations
The main problem is how to accommodate the national self interest of
large and small powers.
• International peacekeeping
• Protecting human rights
• International disputes
• Removing Poverty
• Eradicating anti-social elements in different parts of the world
• Treat from poverty

They are the biggest challenges facing the United Nations.


• Unwieldy organization
• Increasing demands
• Unreliable funding
• Political horse trading
Conclusion

Global Governance is such a complex issue that one can


actually teach an entire course in itself. This lesson has
focused on the IOs and the United Nations in particular.
International organizations are highlighted because they are
the most visible symbols of global governance. The UN, in
particular is the closest to a world governance.
On the one hand, they are the groups of sovereign states.
On the other, they are organization with their own
rationalities and agendas.
It is this tension that will continue to inform the revolution of
these organizations.
However, note that there are many institution, groups and
ideas that hold international and global politics together. In your
own time, you may want to explore these topics on your own.

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