Peacebuilding missions – challenges
Peacebuilding in the field of the world's largest organizations are the UN and the EU in order to understand the effectiveness of these organizations needs to understand the organization of the advantages and disadvantages in peacebuilding area. In order to assess how EU Involvement peacebuilding process can be implemented most effectively we have to include a review of UN peacebuilding mission-related challenges.
One should not forget that the United Nations is an international organization comprising almost all world countries, and its ability to respond to conflict, is directly dependent on the political will of the Member States. Also significant is the financial aspect - a lack of funds expensive peacekeeping
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,With the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union has a new peace-building mandate (Article 21), a new structure (European External Action Service). It is therefore no reason why the EU cannot take the lead and really affect peace building in the world., (Steven Blockmans and Ramses A. Wessel. The European Union and Crisis Management).
With the above treaty (new peace-building mandate) now is a particularly good time for the EU to take the lead. Its immediate neighbours are observed in political, economic and social unrest. Those countries in this crucial stage of the history of a solid support. Launching its new and ambitious neighbourhood policy, the EU has shown willingness and have to be an example to lead peacebuilding process (in peace-building - works show more than words).
The EU has a unique position to establish a link between all of its impacts in order to develop a coherent and comprehensive approach to peace-building, and it must ensure adequate resources. However, the ultimate success will depend on the political will of the EU Member States, the ability to speak with one voice and their desire to fully support an ambitious overall peace-building strategy that will increase confidence in the EU on the international
The system the UN currently has offers some perspective on the idea of conducting and participating in war. But...
International organizations such as NATO and the UN are essential not only for global peace, but also as a place where middle powers can exert their influence. It is understandable that since the inception of such organizations that many crises have been averted, resolved, or dealt with in some way thro...
It was in Paris after the World War I that the conference to make peace that will surpass all other ones were done. The mind of man just at the start of the World War I was still much more the same today especially with respect to attitudes like bigotry, narrow-mindedness and idealism to mention a few. The making of peace is not cheap and from the attitude or perspective that the only way out is to win so as not to lose makes the whole system of war ruthless.1 David A. Andelman and Margaret Macmillan agreed that at the peace conference issues at stake were of such that individual nation represented want to know the way out of the war before anarchy was capitulated, but also to gain an upper hand on the victims or less privileged of war. Considering individuals like the prime ministers of Britain and that of France, Clemenceau and David Lloyd George respectively, with their main decisions as when can they make the war to end? But this cannot be materialised without the British ships or men of France.
Pogodda, Sandra, Oliver Richmond, Nathalie Tocci, Roger Mac Ginty, and Birte Vogel. "Assessing the impact of EU governmentality in post-conflict countries: pacification or reconciliation?." European Security (2014): 1-23.
Origins for the cooperation amongst powers necessary to tackle international disputes can be traced back to the 19th century, however the formation of the League of Nations was eagerly prompted by the First World War. After the horrors in which the world observed, leaders merged together and rejoiced in the potential for a new international system. The League of Nations foremost objective was to secure peace through collective efforts of ‘peace-loving’ powers (Steans, Pettiford, & Diez, 2005, p. 31). President Woodrow Wilson was a lead proponent in the creation of such a body, suggesting it- within his message on the Conditions of Peace- as a means of ‘affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike’ (Wilson, 1918). The following year a detailed scheme was presented at the Versailles Peace Conference and the league was swiftly established with the addition of a permanent secretariat in Geneva. (Catterall, 1999, p. 50). The League was very much considered the ‘most daring and innovative proposal’ (Wilkinson, 2007, p. 85)
Tiilikainen, T. 2011. The empowered European Parliament: Accommodation to the new functions provided by the Lisbon Treaty. The Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
The European Union (EU), since the initial foundation in 1952 as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and throughout periods of development, has been considered one of the most advanced forms of regional integration. It, based on numerous treaties and resolutions, has strived to promote values such as peace, cooperation or democracy, and in 2012 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having “contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe” (Nobel Media AB, 2012). Despite its struggle for promoting democracy, the EU itself has long experienced scholarly criticisms that it suffers the democratic deficit, from which its democratic legitimacy is undermined by observable problems in political accountability and participation. As the importance of legitimacy in a democratically representative institution is hardly debatable, the criticism of whether and why the EU lacks democracy has been given a considerable gravity in academia.
From Declaration #35 of Agenda 2030, we learn that the U.N. will develop peace and safety - or nothing else will work. This brings up an interesting proclamation from the
The European Union stands on the threshold of unparalleled change over the coming years. The next waves of enlargement will be unprecedented in nature and continental in scale. This process has gained so much political momentum that it is now irreversible.
Fifty-eight years after the signing of the Charter, the world has changed dramatically. Its universal character and comprehensiveness make the United Nations a unique and indispensable forum for governments to work together to address global issues. At the same time, there remains a large gap between aspiration and real accomplishment. There have been many successes and many failures. The United Nations is a bureaucracy that struggles – understandably – in its attempt to bring together 191 countries. It must come at no surprise, therefore, that a consensus cannot always be reached with so many different competing voices.
1. As far as peace keeping methods go, the reputation of the United Nations is very pitiable. This is not only because they have not been doing their job to it’s fullest extent, but also because the member states on the security council haven’t given the UN the power it needs if it is to be a successful force in peace keeping methods.
States remain the principal actors in European integration and this should remain the case”. Discuss
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is a regional security based organization. This organization is unique in many ways and has been contributing to the security of its members and neighbors since 1975. The OSCE has had a busy history from the Cold War and beyond. With the end of the Cold War major shifts have come about in the area of international security that this organization primarily deals with. The OSCE is now facing a new era where it needs to convince its members that it still has a role to play.
Because it could be quite complicated to look at the EU model from a point of classical democratic nation-state, it seems to be reasonable to discuss this problem, not by abstract reasoning, but by focusing on a concrete case. European Union is the best case available, which in recent decades has developed into a new type of political system with enormous consequences on democracy and governance in its member states. Despite repeated attempts for major institutional reforms, this system is likely to persist in its basic structures for the future and is unlikely to develop into a federal state or to disintegrate into a classic international organization. The present state of democracy and governance in the EU is therefore worth to be analyzed, as it is not a mere transitory state.
Fifty-one countries established the United Nations also known as the UN on October 24, 1945 with the intentions of preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Over the years the UN has grown in numbers to include 185 countries, thus making the organization and its family of agencies the largest in an effort to promote world stability. Since 1954 the UN and its organizations have received the Nobel Peace Prize on 5 separate occasions. The first in 1954 awarded to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, for its assistance to refugees, and finally in 1988 to the United Nations Peace-keeping Forces, for its peace-keeping operations. As you can see, the United Nations efforts have not gone without notice.