The Liberal Peace Theory Of The United Nations

The United Nations is the association of almost every country in the world. It is thus an international association. In its preamble it states that its aim is to end the war, to proclaim its faith in human rights and in justice between countries, to develop social progress and work for tolerance. Moreover, the goal of the Security Council is “to maintain international peace and security” and also “to develop friendly relations between nations”. These principles promote the Liberal Peace theory. As Roland Paris said in his book At war's end “In response to these challenges, the international community experimented with a number of new techniques for managing the problem of civil unrest and state failure. This task fell largely to the United Nations (UN)”. Indeed, the UN led many operations such as humanitarian assistance to protect populations from the conflicts. But, it is the notion of peacebuilding that is most …show more content…
The application of such a theory may not be as successful as it is expected to be. Indeed, giving power to the people may foster Liberal Peace in some countries, but applying the theory to a war-shattered country does not work. Moreover, the notion of peace, that is very important in the Liberal Peace theory, is questionable. Does peace only exist in democracies ? Technically, peace is the absence of conflict and some undemocratic countries fit that definition. The economic institutions also tend to foster Liberal Peace as they help to reconstruct countries and work for peace and if the country does not respect the liberties of its people then, the institutions no longer provide help, this is what happened in Uzbekistan. But the problem is that if the two institutions decide to stop financing the countries that are damaged then it is the population that will suffer. Thus, the Liberal Peace theory cannot be applied easily in world