I have grown up in a world of violence and wars. My life is marked by these conflicts in a seemingly never-ending cycle of violence where diplomacy has failed. Should it not been for a strong, world organization, who is to say that we would still have a world. I see the United Nations as the focal point for world peace. Everything that comes and goes from the United Nations normally has the effect of calming down international flare-ups or easing inner-national tensions. Though the world’s problems seem insurmountable; a part of the United Nations to me is the international councilor, the “person” that nations can turn to relieve disputes and to restore order to an uneasy Earth.
Though diplomacy sometimes fails, you never really hear about how the United Nations helps through hundreds of minor skirmishes. The World’s attention is only bearing down on the United Nations in times of war, though due credit is not given when conflict is avoided. The Middle-East is a case in point. Tensions in the Middle-Ea
It’s troubling to me that in my short, seventeen year existence that such great amounts of killing and violence have happened. U.N. intervention slowed the process of this latest war to a human pace, but never succeeded in stopping it. At the end of this war, the world will still be spinning, and I hope that peace will start brewing, instead of hatred. The main goal, as I see it, of the United Nations is to promote world peace, and I hope that they will soon find that their goals have been accomplished. Though events often turn the world in the way of war, one group has the power and wisdom to alleviate these altercations, normally before they start. What a scary world we would live in if it weren’t for the great councilor of countries, the United Nations.
Often, after the tragedy of war, countries are left torn and tattered. People are homeless and without food or water. These pictures often hit us at home, thinking how lucky we are. Obviously, the United Nations provides care for these impoverish areas an