UNITED NATIONS’ PERFORMANCE IN THE LIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CHALLENGES

It is an undeniable fact that the United Nations plays an important role in our world.

- H. E. Prof. Ambassador Tal Edgars

Since its establishment, its main aim is to be a beacon of international peace and security by all means. However, the organizations recently suff ered from a lot of institutional, political and other problems, as well as problems within its signifi cant organs like the General Assembly, International Court of Justice and most importantly, the Security Council. The United Nations has shown a lot of failures and inactions in tackling and solving a lot of contemporary political confl icts, civil wars, and humanitarian crises that have escalated since the Arab Spring’s revolutions in 2011. Moreover, the problems it suff ers from have become more severe, and overwhelming and have been threatening its integrity, objectivity, credibility and eff ectiveness in the eyes of a lot of scholars, international experts, countries and populations.

United Nations at a Glance

The United Nations organization was established after the San Francisco conference was held in June 1945, and it is headquartered in New York, United States. The UN’s primary aim is to maintain international peace and security, to be a global umbrella that incorporates all the countries of the world, and to be a considerable and successful experiment as the fi rst permanent international organization in modern history, after the collapse of “League of Nations” with the escalation of World War Two in September 1939.