by Ruben Carlos Alonzo | May 2, 2017 | Turtle Bay
Of all of the organs of the United Nations, perhaps the most well known is the Security Council. Maybe the most well-known aspect of the Security Council is the use of the veto power. Even if it is the most well-known aspect of the Security Council, the actual use of...
by Nili Sarit Yossinger | Mar 7, 2017 | Turtle Bay
With so much focus on Islamic State and the conflict in Syria and Iraq, it is easy to forget the more than 100,000 peacekeepers serving in sixteen active United Nations peacekeeping operations. They play a vital role in stabilizing protracted conflicts on four...
by Jacqueline E Whitt | Oct 24, 2016 | Turtle Bay
by Brian Endless, PhD, President, AMUN “The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a...