Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and agreements
- List of abbreviations
- List of websites
- 1 Negotiation
- 2 Mediation
- 3 Inquiry
- 4 Conciliation
- 5 Arbitration
- 6 The International Court I: organisation and procedure
- 7 The International Court II: the work of the Court
- 8 The Law of the Sea Convention
- 9 International trade disputes
- 10 The United Nations
- 11 Regional organisations
- 12 Trends and prospects
- Appendices
- Index
10 - The United Nations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and agreements
- List of abbreviations
- List of websites
- 1 Negotiation
- 2 Mediation
- 3 Inquiry
- 4 Conciliation
- 5 Arbitration
- 6 The International Court I: organisation and procedure
- 7 The International Court II: the work of the Court
- 8 The Law of the Sea Convention
- 9 International trade disputes
- 10 The United Nations
- 11 Regional organisations
- 12 Trends and prospects
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
The reference of disputes to international political institutions has a history as long as that of arbitration. For present purposes, however, it is unnecessary to go further back than 1919, when, with the creation of the League of Nations as a reaction to the First World War, the first attempt was made to establish a universal organisation with broad responsibilities in this area. Following the failure of the League, or more accurately its member states, to take effective action to forestall a second bloodbath, a fresh effort to bring disputes within the field of operations of a world organisation was made with the creation of the United Nations Organization in 1945.
The purposes of the United Nations, as set out in Article 1 of the Charter, are to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, to achieve international co-operation in solving problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting human rights, and to be a centre for harmonising the actions of states in attaining these ends. Of these interrelated purposes, the maintenance of international peace and security occupies the primary place. Here, according to the Charter, the Organization has two distinct responsibilities: to bring about cessation of armed conflict whenever it occurs, and to assist the parties to international disputes to settle their differences by peaceful means.
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- International Dispute Settlement , pp. 219 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011