The United Nations is an international organisation that was founded in 1945 by 51 various countries that were committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, encouraging social progress, better living standards and human rights. The UN has been and still is involved in many peacekeeping missions around the world, including Afghanistan.
The conflict in Afghanistan has been in motion since 2001 and it still being fought today with 351 Australian troops assisting. The catalyst for this conflict was the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that were carried out by Al-Qaeda, the Unites States responded to this terrorist threat with the launch of ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’. The UN Security Council expressed their support for efforts of the Afghan people to replace the Taliban regime as a result of them being condemned for allowing Afghanistan to be used as a base for export of terrorism and also providing a safe haven for Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda.
The United Nations organisation intensified their efforts by delivering more than 94,000 tons of food aid to 1.13 million people in the year 2000, while also vaccinating roughly 5.3 million children against polio disease and provided support for non-discriminatory education to more than 300,000 children, including home schooling projects for young girls. The Secretary-General of the UN at the time said, “Our challenge is to help the Afghans help themselves”. He also stated that the country’s reconstruction needs were immense. The United Nations also supported other projects that were essential such as, reintegration of combatants, revival of economic activity, a fairer justice system, democratic institutions and mechanisms to pr...
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...re are also humanitarian concerns which are proving to be an ongoing challenge. Due to the ongoing instability in Afghanistan 124,000 people have been newly displaced from their homes and communities and the number of internally displaced people has risen to more than 630,000. Furthermore the unending challenge of the Opium Drug Trade within Afghanistan continues to be the primary source of income to the Taliban. Afghanistan is the largest source of illicit opium and heroin, and an estimated 90% of the world’s opium trade and an estimated 74% of the world’s heroin trade originated in Afghanistan.
In conclusion the United Nations organisation has proved to be an indispensable asset when assisting the Afghan nation to rebuild not only their government but the improvement of the basic human rights being recognised and respected throughout the nation.
Emily Everett
...in reasons that most political violence occurs, and how to resolves these conflicts of political violence. After the research was completed, it is very apparent that Canada has had a very positive impact on Afghanistan. There are not many countries who would continue to stay in the country after completing their time in battle. Although Canada was involved in the war against Afghanistan, the country itself still found it mandatory for troops to continue to serve in Afghanistan as peace makers. Canada is known for peace and freedom and this exemplifies just that. Canada is putting forth time, effort, and money, to improve the living conditions of those in Afghanistan and helping them build a sustainable, peaceful life that they can carry out for years to come. Every country will have its own corruption; the answer is to begin from the basics. Peace and security.
1. Immediately following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, American military power sought out and aggressively attacked Al Qaeda and Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan. Within weeks, the United States removed the Taliban from governing Afghanistan and worked with the international community to establish a new democratic government led by Afghan native Hamid Karzai, who would soon be elected president. However, by 2006, the Taliban significantly increased attacks on pro-Afghan government officials, Afghan security forces, and coalition military members. The United States and partner North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members responded with a surge of military might in 2010 to make one final push to drive the Taliban out. With major ground now gained for the Afghan government in 2014, Afghanistan faces a critical crossroads in its nation’s history. After recovering areas once held by the Taliban, Afghanistan must become self-sufficient in sustaining its first democratic government. With Company Grade Officers (CGOs) in the American military key to reaching strategic objectives, a secure and democratic Afghanistan is in the national interest of the United States in order to prevent a safe-haven for international terrorist activity.
Afghanistan since its beginning has been a place of conflict, despair, and at times lost hope. It has been taken advantage of and lost its sense of identity, which has had a direct effect on its people, and there own sense of what justice truly is.
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The United States strategy overwhelming resembled “Hearts and Minds” with its focus on establishing a capable and honest government by addressing corruption and abuse within the Afghanistan government. The strategy aimed to improve the standards of living in Afghanistan by focusing on security and improving the overall safety of the citizens of Afghanistan. While the United States strategy had some elements of “Cost/Benefit,” such as the “stick” approach to insurgents unwilling to reintegrate, it was not the dominate
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For decades Afghanistan has been a reservoir for war. From the collapse of the communist government, to the implementation of the Taliban’s extremist views, the country has been ridden with civil war resulting in over 26,000 civilians killed at the expense of the interminable violence. The people of Afghanistan see no end to the barbaric measures that have stripped them of their liberty. While corruption ridden the country’s leaders, the Taliban displays the public slaughter of civilians in order to establish obedience.
The United Nations (UN) was established at the end of World War II, in order to promote co-operation between nations. The UN replaced the failed and ineffective League of Nations; its goal was to prevent future conflicts. In the beginning, the Cold War was the main international topic so the United Nations spent most of its attention on preventing the United States and the Soviet Union from entering into a major war. In the after math of the Cold War many countries gained their independence, as states in Africa were being decolonized there was hostility between ethnic populations. The UN has been involved in sixty peace operation throughout the world since its inception. Two of the peace missions were launched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The United Nations Organization in the Congo (ONUC) during the Cold War, and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) in the early 2000’s with it currently still ongoing.
In the aftermath of World War 2, the United Nations, a byproduct of an international attempt to form a peaceful foreground, immediately laid down peaceful treaties and procedures to unite great nations together. Two years into the United Nations' inception, the major superpowers in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union, already formed climactic tensions and began an arms race of military, technological, and economical advancements. Cold, defined because of the lack of large-scale fighting between the Eastern Bloc, Soviet Union and the Western Bloc, the United States. Already disappointing its foundations and policies, the initial decades of development for the United Nations were stagnating. The Cold War had brought the world at risk of potential outbreak of a nuclear war, and destroyed any confirmations of a globally peaceful society. What would ultimately result in branching wars, such as the Korean War between South and North Korean governmental dictatorship, and the Vietnam War, the Cold War began numerous conflicts in the globe. Including the Space Race, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Crisis, and Suez Crisis, the United Nations was often an unsuccessful organization, failing to meet its founding principles in the context of the Cold War. However, with the development of Peacekeeping in 1950, the symbolic “Blue Helmets” went into action during the 1956 Suez Crisis. In addition, the UN mediated the Berlin Crisis through negotiations between the USA and Soviet union, in 1949, ending the blockade that caused the crisis. While the United Nations aided in the prevention of a massive nuclear war, however, by 1993, 2 years after the War's negotiated end, the UN witnessed major relief of the passing...
Afghanistan is a country in war and a country in devastation. Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates and the world’s highest birth rates. Because of the high infant mortality rates, they also have many problems in health, sanitation, and a lack of food they have. Because of poor health and sanitation in the country of Afghanistan, the Afghanis have many sicknesses and diseases. Sickness causes high infant mortality rates. The diseases that cause high death rates are bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, malaria, and rabies (Demographics 2013). Because the mothers do not have enough nutrition when giving birth to the infants, many of the mothers die in childbirth. And because of the two decades of war, the war also left many people especially children homeless. As a result, there are children on the streets of Afghanistan without a families and shelter. What should the United Nations do to help Afghanistan? To help Afghanistan, the United Nations should assist Afghanistan with food and health problems to help reduce the high morality and birth rates so Afghanistan could start moving towards the third demographic transition.
Violence is a major part of Afghan history, it is woven deeply into the rich history of Afghanistan. Near the end of the twentieth century, Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union and infiltrated by Islamic Radicalists, mainly from the Middle East and Pakistan. Using the help of Senator Charlie Wilson and his proposal to increase the budget for Afghanistan and involvement with the Afghan people, the United States doubled their budget for supplying Afghanistan and became more involved in Afghan conflicts. With the help of the United States budget and training, Afghanistan became the first country to defeat the Soviet Union (Charlie Wilson’s War). Since United States involvement there has been a debate on how long the Western Forces should remain in Afghanistan. While some will argue that
1. As far as peace keeping methods go, the reputation of the United Nations is very pitiable. This is not only because they have not been doing their job to it’s fullest extent, but also because the member states on the security council haven’t given the UN the power it needs if it is to be a successful force in peace keeping methods.
An iron fisted dictator that used internal security forces to maintain his grip on power by suppressing any and all dissent was replaced by a weak and corrupt pro-American government. The new government lacked any real form of legitimacy and violence in the country intensified as armed Shia and Sunni extremist groups and militias battled each other and NATO security forces across the country.[11] Terrorists attacks such as car bombings and attacks by armed gunmen increased, and many pundits and think tanks started to question the Coalition’s ability to properly run the occupation. The situation in Afghanistan was not much better. In 2001, when the United States invaded Afghanistan, most of the country was in the hands of the Taliban. There was a civil war going in the north, where an alliance of Tajik tribes along with a smaller number of Uzbeks opposed the Pashtun dominated Taliban. [12] The most populous regions of the country including the nation’s largest city, Kabul, were controlled by the Taliban who enforced Shariah Law and prevented women from getting an education. When our leaders spoke of our involvement in Afghanistan they spoke of human rights, democracy and access to education for all. But the situation in Afghanistan went from bad to worse as the initially defeated Taliban bounced back and took control of their traditional strongholds in the south. Following a
The UN has made strides toward and continues to fight for world peace, but this however is not the only function of the agency. Environmental protection, Human rights, health and medical research, alleviation of poverty and economic development, emergency and disaster relief, and labor and workers' rights are just a sample of what the UN continues to battle as the year 2000 approaches.
The United Nations is one of the widely known global organizations that came into existence after the world wars. According to Mark Mazower’s book; No Enchanted Palace, the historical background including the presumed core reasons for the start of the United Nations is outlined. Many people across the globe believe that the UN came into existence after the World War II skirmishes. It is believed that the core reason for the formation of this organization was to maintain peace around the world. Well known historian Mark Mazower in his book however discards this sort of thoughts. He focuses on the archetype interpretation of the UN's ideological roots, history, and its changing roles in international affairs.