What is your understanding of the mission of the UN?

Answer 1

My understanding of the United Nations is a confederation of Nation-States who have come together to avoid violent conflict in times of political distress.

As far as it's effectiveness or lack thereof I refer to my first statement. As a confederation most of the power still belongs to the Nation-States and therefore renders the overall body null and void. (Example: The Iraq War was widely opposed by the UN)

Answer 2

Peaceful Nations gather and talk about problems in the world. They don't invade other countries without provocation or a real evidence of Weapons of mass destruction.
Republicans want us out of the UN because they don't want to listen, they want to tell other countries how it will be in the world.
Funny how many times i have Heard Republicans say "we should not be in the business of nation building" at election time. They said that in debates with Clinton and Gore. Supporters of the UN pay most of the cost for the UN because as supporters we support peace and open talk about the problems in the world. Aids will kill 100 million in the next ten years and that is a world problem.
The USA does not Negotiate with Terrorist but Bu$h is more than willing to sell Iran Nukes. That is a world problem.

Answer 3

The fact of the matter is that for the past twenty years the major reason why the United Nations has not been able to do what is was designed to do is because the United States blocked it. The United States is far in the lead in vetoing Security Council resolutions and in voting often in isolation or virtual isolation on General Assembly resolutions on a wide range of issues, including the Middle East, aggression, observance of international law, disarmament, environmental issues, you name it. That is why the U.N. was unable to act. But now the U.N. is more or less -- actually less than we claim -- acting in accordance with U.S. demands, so therefore it is able to act.

Answer 4

The UN was established after World War 2 after the 'League of Nations' which it replaced found it was unable to prevent any future war (future from the perspective of 1918). The UN's main purpose is still to try and prevent war (the the establishing of agreements and treaties), as well as the pursuit if human rights (after the genocide of ww2).

Answer 5

Yes, and how it was started, by another name, by FDR! We formed it and we a signatories, but some disregard it when it is to their advantage!

PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
Article 1
The Purposes of the United Nations are: 1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: 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, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and

4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends. UN CHARTER which we wrote with several other countries in San Francisco!

The UN Set up:

Principles of the
Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
No. 82
Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal. Adopted by the International Law Commission of the United Nations, 1950.

Answer 6

I think the UN is alot of talk no action.And they need more good people to work with them.I wish I knew more about it so maybe I could do something.

Answer 7

Peacekeeping

Answer 8

What cantuc posted. Unfortunately it is a failure, and the United States should withdraw from the U.N. and all members should be expelled from the United States.

Answer 9

To work toward common goals to resolve world problems such as peace, poverty, starvation, suffering.

Answer 10

making the world one