By giving a clearer voice to the Global South, the UN can be revitalised and strengthened from within, and avoid the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations, in being relegated to obscurity.Download the article (PDF)The UN has made headlines in 2017 for all the wrong reasons. Just this month, fifteen of its Tanzanian peacekeepers were killed and more than 50 wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN has been engaged in a long, costly and – some would argue – fruitless campaign to restore peace to the war-torn eastern region.In September, the UN General Assembly …read more
Source: Royal United Services Institute