When Peace Becomes War

The Colonial Enterprise of the UN Security Council

Résumé

reated in 1945, the United Nations (UN) was the world’s first commitment to global governance, the idea that the planet is formed of a community of states that best tackles international problems through cooperation and concerted action. More than 60 years later, the UN changed into a complex system comprising 193 member states and 44,000 employees dispatched over dozens of sub-organizations with overlapping duties (United Nations Careers). The central function of the UN is promoting its three pillars, peace and security, development, and human rights across its six main organs through the rule of law (United Nations). Though these principles are deemed universal and theoretically guarantee the protection of all peoples of the world, a close examination of the operations of the Security Council, the organization’s ultimate decisional body, reveals a much darker picture. [...]