
If anyone wants to join me with the presentation+project, here is what I would like to focus on:
For my project, the issue I am looking at is the function of the U.N., it's relevance and failures in reference to what it's mission statement is. The U.N. is supposed to focus on keeping world peace and creating a space of security. However, countries like the US have a very strong influence on the behaviour of the General Assembly or Security Council and the decisions made by the U.S. It's very interesting when you dig deeper into this issue because the idea of the United Nations and the practice of it are very different.
From http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/9/29/22489/8449
According to UNICEF's own report (located at the very bottom of the linked page):
* Increasingly, wars are fought in precisely those countries that can least afford them. Of more than 150 major conflicts since the Second World War, 130 have been fought in the developing world. The per capita gross national product (GNP) of war-torn countries in 1994 included: Afghanistan (US$280), Angola ($700), Cambodia ($200), Georgia ($580), Liberia ($450), Mozambique ($80), Somalia ($120), Sri Lanka ($640), the Sudan ($480).
* Since the 1950s, more wars have started than have stopped. By the end of 1995, wars had been running in Afghanistan for 17 years, Angola, 30; Liberia, 6; Somalia, 7; Sri Lanka, 11; Sudan, 12.
I have an idea on how to distribute this information through an awareness campaign but I won't say it now because I'm still working on it. So, I am looking into United Nations resolutions and how these are actually practiced. I'm not sure what the presentation topic will be but if anyone is interested, let me know.
Example:
Chapter 1: Purposes and Principles Article 1 ...to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace...
This video is interesting if you really want to know more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1iIe0qlDnI
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