The United Nations is organised as in 1945 and the world has change a lot since that period. By then the main goal was to prevent another World War to happen, today there is a lot more problems to which the international society has to face and there is no way for any State, even the most self-sufficient States, to secure its interests acting alone and the UN stands as the most global Organisation capable of unite States and to bring them to cooperate towards a better and more secure world. Just to mention some of those problems: terrorism has increased; conflict States have increased so as interstates wars; new threats came up namely with the proliferation of the so-called “ABC weapons”: atomic, biological and chemical; the gap between the North-South countries is even worst now in the context of a globalised world that is good for the riches countries but not so attractive for the cheap labour in the poorer countries which struggle every day against poverty and severe diseases; and also the situations concerning the environment never were so “real” with issues such as the future of the world water supply, the pollution and the consequences of the climate change. Nowadays it is clear, due to latest events, that the UN cannot deal with all matters and particularly with the major issues which are occasionally “solve by the big ones” of the international scene. One the positive side there was not any World War but the UN was not successful in maintaining peace because since its creation there have been more than 160 wars. In this context, the UN will be (if it is not already) confronted whether it remains relevant for managing conflict, given the changing nature of security threats and the UN’s own response to them. That is what it would be answered in this essay.
“This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven" . These words, from an US delegate to the UN, still illustrate its role...