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This lesson looks more in depth at the Charter of the UN:
- what it is
- how it gained it’s “legal personality”
- a little about what that means to the nations that signed the charter
- the components of the charter
Does the charter enable the UN to “stay relevant” to the times?
- Now may IGOs have international status and legal personality
- The international landscape is very different than 1945
- Can it cope with the challenge of transnational crime & terrorism?
- What of the challenge of the borderless information age?
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Homework
Discuss either with a colleague or by making your own notes:
- Read Chapter I, Article 2 Paragraph 7 and Chapter VII (& especially Article 39) in relation to the Rwandan Genocide. How would you have voted if you had been in the Security Council at the time of the plea for help from Rwandans?
- Your reading of Chapter VII and Article 39 in particular: How well can the SC deal with terrorism and similar transnational crimes that threaten the peace?
Links
The UN Charter
— http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/index.shtml
Suggested Reading and Resources
—United Nations Today
—Matheson, Michael J. Council Unbound: The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict And Postconflict Issues After the Cold War
—Welch, Gita H, and Zahra Nuru. Governance for the Future: Democracy and Development in the Least Developed Countries. , 2006. Internet resource.
—Annan, Kofi A. In Larger Freedom. New York: United Nations, 2005. Print and available online here.
