Financing Peace - A Moral Imperative and Price of World Leadership for the United States

Download or read book Financing Peace - A Moral Imperative and Price of World Leadership for the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War promised a Peace Dividend. The potential for a major conflict between two great nuclear powers (USSR and the United States) has dissipated, but the number of crisis spots that the United Nations is concerned with has increased. Failing nation states and evolving democracies are on the rise. Financing peace involves much more than just resourcing UN sponsored peace operations. It includes properly resourcing the United Nations with basic funding, provision of military forces for UN sponsored operations, and sufficient funding for humanitarian assistance and other international aid. The U.S. has accrued significant dues in arrears of UN regular budget and peacekeeping assessments resulting in much debate and concern about the stability of the UN. This paper focuses on the special role that the United States has in financing the United Nations and its peace operations. It reviews the origin of the UN, the mandate for Chapter VI and Chapter VII peace operations, and the assessments (ways) required to properly resource (means) requirements (ends).