EMMERGING ROLE OF UN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF FUTURE CONFLICTS

INTRODUCTION

Since the end of cold war, the world has been in a constant flux of changes, resulting into serious security risks. These risks range from border disputes to ethno-religious conflicts, most of which are likely to cause regional and global destabilization. In today’s unipolar world no single or group of states has the capacity to counter balance by themselves and therefore, the world is looking more towards United Nations (UN) for establishing World peace.

The Collective power to shape the future is greater now than ever before. The world needs a new vision that can mobilize people everywhere to achieve higher levels of cooperation in areas of mutual interest. The foundation of UN some fifty five years ago was an expression by world leaders towards a new world wherein the international behavior and governance was about to begin.

The domination of power blocks and less respect for use of UN forum for vested interest has curved the UN role. The potentialities of international organization led by UN are immense in this regard though not utilized to its full potential.

At this new millenium every ones expectations are of more peaceful world order. But the natures of conflicts in future days are likely to be more diverse and complicated to be handled by UN. The causes of these conflicts will be mainly of race for nuclear power, global militarization, prolong economic sanction on any particular state, subjugating the Muslim states by the US and its allies, religious conflicts, intra-state conflicts, polarization between rich and poor and environmental resource conflicts. Besides this, due to the US hegemony in any world affair and parallel role of NATO as recently displayed in Libya crisis, are of serious concern about the role of UN. As such in today’s present scenario