1. United Nations

2. Purpose Maintain international peace and security
Develop friendly relations among nations
Cooperate in solving:
Economic
Social
Cultural
Humanitarian problems
Promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms

3. Structure General Assembly Security Council
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Trusteeship Council
International Court of Justice
Secretariat

4. Reforming the United Nations
What kind of UN does the world need for the twenty-first century?

5. Streamlined UN World gov’t not necessary, feasible or desirable
Mistrust in gov’t in all forms
What happened to national sovereignty
International orgs are not gov’t but servants of gov’t
No accountability and no power

6. World Government The need for world gov’t is growing
Different interest groups and gov’t look at the world body differently
Global forces have weakened the traditional authority of sovereign nation-states.
UN needs a serious overhaul to prepare it for the years ahead