Challenges of United Nations' Preventive Diplomacy: to Maintain Peace and Security

The book tries to elucidate the challenges facing the United Nations in practicing preventive diplomacy to maintain peace and security. In order to answer the main questions, an objective, analytic, and descriptive methodology is adopted. The book presented definition and concept of the preventive diplomacy in the UN context as the UN is mandated and empowered by its Charter which sets out the legal basis of preventive diplomacy and possesses the means and tools to prevent disputes and conflicts from emerging and escalating into armed confrontation. The paper showed the tools of preventive diplomacy uses in the UN in peace and war times. Then, examples of successes and failures of the UN operations around the world were presented leading to analysis and extract the UN's challenges in practicing preventive diplomacy. The book found that the UN still has rooted challenges. Despite the UN achieved success through preventive diplomacy, the Organization still having core challenges related to its fund, the limitations of intervention, the lack of capacity, the lack of coordination between members, and the veto power.

Author: Mohammed B. E. Saaida

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Aug 25, 2020

Number of Pages: 30 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798678885272