SEVENTY YEARS since it was formed, the United Nations (UN) is nowhere near arriving at its intended function as the supra-national body geared for world peace. That there is effectively no peace ” as Pope Francis has said, World War 3 is already being fought through numerous small conflagrations ” is obvious; from the regular Israeli assaults on Palestine to the burning Middle East stretching east to Afghanistan and north to Ukraine. Africa, as a continent, has never really been free of violence either. And yet, the UN, a post-World War 2 construct carried over from the failed League of Nations, was a means to achieve some form of global governance. That it fails miserably speaks of the unruly nature of national interests that cannot be contained. Power configurations with, at the one end, nuclear powers lording it over powerless nations, is mostly to blame.
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