The Role Of The United Nations In The League Of Nations

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The first attempt at the concept of international organizations dates back to the Treaty of Westphalia 1684 . However, the first modern attempt at the establishment of a full international organization after the first world war was the League of Nations. On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations formally came into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by forty two nations in 1919, took effect . This was in principle conceived, and set out to be a permanent universal organization with general competence to encourage the development of settlement of disputes and the guarantee against interstate aggression. The organization failed to achieve these and this eventually led

Cater for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve the above ends.
All the above are the duties of the U N. The first and primary purpose of the U N as given in the Preamble to the Charter and Article 1 of same is the maintenance of international peace and security
If situations which threaten peace, are in existence it is the responsibility of the UN to remove such situation. The United Nations must also suppress any acts of aggression or acts involving breach of peace and if peace has been breached, it should restore the peace. Part of the responsibility of the United Nations is also to bring about adjustment or settlement of international disputes by peaceful means as provided in Article 33 in conformity with justice in international law. In situations whereby there is already degeneration into armed conflict situations, it is the duty of the United Nations to resort to peace keeping operations to achieve its purpose .
This brings us to the central theme of this research, ”A Critical Appraisal Of The United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in Africa”.
United Nations has six principal organs for the purpose of achievement of its aims and objectives. They are as follows:-
1. The General

Since the inception of human race, societies have been faced with conflictual contradictions that have necessitated various strategies towards maintenance of peace. This has made it necessary for third parties to always come into conflicts situation as mediators. This is the role being played now by the United Nations. This has always resulted in the research on peace keeping operations all over the world. UN peacekeeping operations is based on the principle that an impartial presence on the ground can ease tensions between hostile parties and create space for political negotiations . Peacekeeping can help bridge the gap between the cessation of hostilities and a durable peace, but only if the parties to a conflict have the political will needed to reach the goal . Initially developed as a means of dealing with inter-State conflict, peacekeeping has increasingly been used in intra-State conflicts and civil wars, which are often characterized by multiple armed factions with differing political objectives and fractured lines of command .
While United Nations peacekeeping operations are, in principle, deployed to support the implementation of a cease-fire or peace agreement, they are often required to play an active role in peacemaking efforts and may also be involved in early peace building activities . United Nations peace keeping operations