The United

Nations
(GROUP 4)

MS. LOURDENIA TAGUIAM

AUGUST 10, 2021
1. Why is global governance multi-faceted?
Global governance can be defined as the “collective efforts to
identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go
beyond the capacities of individual states to solve”. The system
of global governance is multi-faceted because it encompasses
several global areas of governance including security, justice,
human rights, development, trade, and finance. Global governance
involves many actors, such as intergovernmental organizations
(IGOs), multinational corporations (MNCs), international non-
governmental organizations (INGOs), states and non-state actors
(NSAs). Global governance has to be multifaceted because the
issues at hand are varied and many as well. There are conflicts,
environmental issues, business, health, education, territory
issues, science and technology issues, women issues, refugees,
child soldiers, trafficking the list is endless. In order to
respond to all these any form of international government has
to be prepared to deal with all these issues. Global governance
achieves the goal of delivering public goods which include but
not limited to, education, health care, security, human rights,
development aid, and natural disaster relief by combining
informal and formal values, rules, procedures, policies, and
various types of organizations.

2. How international organizations take on the lives of their

own?
An international organization (intergovernmental organization)
is an organization established by a treaty or other instrument
governed by international law and possessing its own legal
personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health
Organization and NATO. International organizations are composed
of primarily member states, but may also include other entities,
such as other international organizations. Additionally,
entities (including states) may hold observer status. Notable
examples include the United Nations (UN), Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Bank for
International Settlements (BIS), Council of Europe (COE),
International Labour Organization (ILO) and International
Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).

The role of international organizations is helping to set the

international agenda, mediating political bargaining, providing
a place for political initiatives, and acting as catalysts for
the coalition- formation. They facilitate cooperation and
coordination among member nations. In addition, they promote
global initiatives aimed at reducing inequality like the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10.

International organizations take on "lives of their own" by

creating a new entity state as their solution to address some
common problem. Once created, although, the new entity has a
life of its own and cannot be fully controlled by individual
states contrary to their interests. They also set the
international agenda, mediating political bargaining, providing
a place for political initiatives, and acting as mediator for
the coalition-formation. They facilitate cooperation,
coordination, and organization among member nations.
 All organizations start with a vision or purpose. Then they
bring together like-minded people from various different
backgrounds who would add to the upliftment of the cause.
Generally, international organizations receive support from
different countries, so they don’t really face a major monetary
problem. Leaders are chosen to be a part of the governing body
to steer these organizations in the right direction. Media also
plays an important role in helping these organizations receive
support from all over the world. But We believe that, the main
reason most international organizations are successful today,
is because they never forgot their purpose.

3. What are the challenges faced by the United Nations in

maintaining global security?
• Geopolitical aggression and intransigence: Conflicts are
becoming protracted by intense rivalries between global
powers and regional powers as they support proxies to wage
war overseas. The wars in Syria and Yemen are prime
examples.
• The practice of relabeling conflicts as counter-terror
struggles: This tendency leads to the neglect of the
factors and actors driving conflict and the erosion of
space needed to build peace. We’ve seen this occur in high-
profile cases like Syria, but also in Egypt, Turkey and
elsewhere. When leaders use the pretext of counter-terror
to crush dissent and political opposition, it escalates
violent conflict rather than reducing it.
• Legacies of military intervention and regime change: Framed
as interventions to counter terror, save civilians or
remove rogue regimes, in case after case military
intervention and regime change have failed to bring lasting
stability or to defeat fundamentalist groups. On the one
hand this has brought deep distrust of interventionism –
but at the same time there are huge risks in simply giving
up on supporting constructive, peaceful change in the face
of repression.
• Panic over forced displacement: As desperate people flee
conflict zones, the impact of forced displacement is
hitting neighboring countries hardest, and they are coping
as best they can. Meanwhile, Western governments are making
hasty deals to support border and security forces in
transit countries to close their borders and shut the
problem out. But this train, equip and ignore approach –
as in the EU’s Khartoum Process – fails to address the root
causes of the problem.
• Struggling humanitarianism: Undoubtedly humanitarians have
a tough job. The UN and others are making enormous efforts,
with inadequate resources, to assist the victims of
conflict. But they are not yet good enough at defending
humanitarian values, working for prevention during crisis
or empowering those affected by humanitarian crises to take
the initiative. And if UN Security Council members – either
directly or through allies they support – continue to bomb
hospitals or attack humanitarian convoys, we are unlikely
to see this change.
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