United Nations and Global Conflicts
Week 1: 1 The need for an international order
2 The scope of UNDHR
3 Peace and Ideologies
4 Objectives of UNO
Week 2: 1 Liberal principles of UNO
2 Precedents of minority rights
3 UNO and Women’s rights
4 UNO and Indigenous rights
Week 3: 1 Structure of General Assembly and role
2 Security Council: Its Structure Veto system and Security Council
3 Veto system and Security Council
4 Economic and Social Council
Week 4: 1 Contributions of ECOSOC
2 Idea of ICJ
3 Landmark interventions of ICJ
4 Specialised agencies: Its importance
Week 5:
1 ILO: Structure and Role
2 ILO: Issues and Labour rights
3 UNESCO: Main contributions
4 WHO: Issues and Contributions
Week 6:
1 WHO: Fighting Pandemics
2 UNICEF: Structure and Function
3 UNICEF and Child rights
4 UNDP and its Functions
Week 7:
1 UN Environment Programme and global climatic issues
2 UNCHR: Refugee questions and stateless people’s rights
3 Some distinctive contributions of UNCHR
4 Peace Keeping: UN’s Role
Week 8:
1 Millennium Development Goals: The case of developing countries
2 Causes of Korean war
3 Fallout of Korean war
4 Global dynamics and Korean war
Week 9:
1 Korean War and UN
2 Korean crisis and arm race
3 Vietnam War: Causes
4 USA and Vietnam war
Week 10:
1 Internal sovereignty and regional power struggle in Vietnam
2 Military alliances and ideological consequences
3 Vietnam war: Hope and Despair
4 Afghanistan war: The cold war politics
Week 11:
1 Politics of Detente
2 Afghanistan and global power dynamics
3 The rise of militancy in Afghanistan as a fallout
4 9/11 attacks and Afghanistan
Week 12:
1 Balkan Conflict: Identity politics
2 The question of Serbs
3 The Bosnian dream
4 Balkanisation: The Ethnicisation
Week 13:
1 The Human rights issues in Balkans
2 The issue of reforming UN
3 The issues raised by Global south
4 The problem of veto system
Week 14:
1 Reforming the Security Council system
2 WHO and Critical claims
3 Demand for expanding security council
4 UN and lingering conflicts around the world
Week 15:
1 The question of Non-Self Governing territories
2 UN and Climate change: Challenges and Prospects
3 Climate change and Responses of the Industrialised countries
4 Role of the developing countries and climate change
