The United Nation’s most powerful, non-military response to global threats and security breaches remains, despite critics, skeptics, and procrastinators, its sanctions system. The one single insight on which most can agree is that sanctions are a very prominent aspect of the work of the Security Council. Most other issues however have been for many years misunderstood, misinterpreted, and in general, UN sanctions are poorly implemented.
Tag: security council
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Post-Cold War criticism of the Council seems to ignore the fact that the pre-1990s power struggles between the US and Soviet Union, and those countries in their respective spheres of influence, had a similarly, if not more pronounced, paralyzing effect on decision-making.
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The UN Ebola Crisis Manager for Liberia discusses the outbreak in the country, what has worked so far, and assesses the overall interagency effort on the ground.
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Security Council Resolution 2177 declaring the Ebola crisis a “threat to international peace and security” is evidence that health issues have become increasingly securitized within the UN system.
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To be successfully implemented, UN Security Council Resolution 2178 requires the inclusion of local and contextual measures that can enhance community resilience.
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The Security Council’s unanimous decision to authorize the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians without state consent is no small feat. Will it set a new precedent?
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The termination process is not often examined when creating sanctions, but it is key to their effectiveness.
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Because the Security Council is a political body—not a forum for justice—there is a danger that, over time, an over-reliance on criminal justice discourse may create a dangerous gap between its practice and public expectations of the Council as an enforcer of the international rule of law.
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The Security Council’s work on children and armed conflict has barely begun; this is not the time for member states to start stalling and pushing back on the issue.
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The crisis presents an opportunity for UNMISS to re-examine its mandate to better align its objectives with the needs of the people of South Sudan.
