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THE ROLE OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL IN THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES
THE ROLE OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL IN THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES

Author(s): Mădălina Cocoşatu
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: International dispute; security; international organization; Security Council; procedure; functions;

Summary/Abstract: The idea to solve disputes through peaceful means is not new. The actions of the international organizations add to the efforts made by the states that in any dispute between them to be no place for force and power, but only for persuasion and reason. In the center of the preoccupations of the international society, the values of peace and security have a privileged place, both in the sense of their actual materialization, and, especially, in guaranteeing and promoting them. The rapid evolution of the international society reveals a climate of turbulences, of increase of the risk factors that, by aggregation, may lead to the emergence of disputes. The paper aims to analyze in an interdisciplinary manner the role that the United Nations Security Council has in maintaining peace and security. For this purpose, a great attention will be given to the study of the functions and procedures made in this sense.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 109-114
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English