How Does We Solve World Peace?

Often people wish for world peace, but how often does this wish get granted? Who is willing to answer such a wish? Today the U.N. and political leaders are finding way to secure this wish so that someday we will live in a world that doesn't have war and violence. Others though are studying a much more abstract way of looking at the world that if done by every individual, would create a paradigm shift in the interpretation of the world, the universe, and peace. I believe in taking a realistic approach to most everything, but sometimes people can’t limit themselves to selfless outlooks and complete fairness, which leaves me with what I believe to be the last option: an alternative perspective on life.

The United Nations is one of the most important peacekeeping organizations today. The military is the most significant part of the U.N.'s peacekeeping simply because a military is necessary in war. It could be assumed that the continuation of the U.N.'s efforts would lead to fewer wars, and more peaceful nations (“United Nations”).

Director of the Lloyd International Honors College and a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Jerry Pubantz positively reports on human rights efforts by the United Nations in his article “Construction Reason: Human Rights and the Democratization of the United Nations.” Pubantz reviews the history of the U.N. and what it has done to improve human rights. He acknowledges that the U.N. has done a great job of supporting human rights internationally. Pubantz links the graduating involvement of human rights in U.N. actions as a paradigm shift in peacekeeping and states that human rights are necessary when keeping peace within or between states because human ri...

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Pubantz, Jerry. “Construction Reason: Human Rights and the Democratization of the United Nations.” Social Forces. 84.2 (2005): 1291+. General OneFile. Web. 2 Feb. 2010. An analysis of the way the United Nations keeps peace in foreign states and how individual rights are of rising importance in a changing world.

Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael. New York: Random House, 1995. Print. A perspective of on the world to help us understand how we can solve problems in the world like peace.

“United Nations Peacekeeping.” United Nations. Web. 2 Feb. 2010 . The United Nation's website that tell about how the UN keeps peace in foreign states, the definition of peacekeeping, and the missions the UN is currently involved in and the mission it has completed.