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Conflict Insight

The Irony of the Security Council

How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This short article examines the contradiction at the centre of the United Nations Security Council. Beginning from the Charter’s stated purpose of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war, the author sets out the powers conferred on the Council under Chapter VII, including the determination of threats to the peace, the mediation of disputes and the authorisation of force. Against this the author places the conduct

of three of the five permanent members: the pressure exerted by China on Taiwan, the invasion of Iraq…

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