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United Nations organization was established on 24th October 1945 after the World War 2 in order to prevent such destructive war again. As the world’s only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. It came into being with one central mission i.e. the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN does this by working to prevent conflict by helping parties in conflict to make peace. Moreover, the purpose of making UN also include the protection of human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promotion of sustainable development and to uphold the international law. While conflict resolution …show more content…

The council is seemed to implement diplomacy effectively and most of times it is a preventive diplomacy as it was in case of Cuban missile crisis where the world was at a risk of nuclear rage. This kind of diplomacy is conducted both overtly and privately and diplomats of United Nations along with general assembly helped to ice the fire on both sides and eventually the conflict de-escalated with immense scuffles being provided by United Nations diplomats and its specialized …show more content…

The organization acts as a neutral body and provides grounds for both the parties to negotiate and advices the parties for diplomatically handle the situation. United Nations has always remained successful to mediate and moderate the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Back in 2001-2002 confrontation of troops, where the troops where detained on the borders and remained in eye to eye ball confrontation, for a whole year United Nations mediated and the issue was resolved. Again in 2008, the Mumbai attacks took place of which Pakistan was alleged and there were chances of war again UN has to intervene to resolve the issue. These incidents highlight UN success on part of implementation of its effective diplomacy.
On part of United Nations failures Rwanda and Bosnia genocide are considered as the biggest examples where United Nations peace keeping forces failed to secure the humans over there leading to massive killings. The holocaust of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men at the hands of Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995 was an even more specific failure for the UN than Rwanda - in that the town had been declared a “safe zone” and given its own Dutch protection force precisely to stop this

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