SOCI 254 Chapter Notes -World Food Programme, Negotiations To End Apartheid In South Africa
Document Summary
Some highlights: purpose, organization, key donors, expenditures. Charter of the united nations = purposes: to maintain international peace and security = how the un came about, the original and absolutely most o essential goal. League of nations + un: there was a disaster of wwii = complete wipeout of multilateral organizations following wwi (league of nations), that completely failed for a variety of reasons. After the new disaster of wwii, they decided to bring about the un. They incorporated idealistic purposes: wwi = idiotic war ever. Then come up with dream of federation of nations with idealistic purposes and very practical focus = one of the first things was to solve the problems of nation- less people, people without states because maps had been redrawn. Millions of people without states, so for practical reasons needed to solve this problem = the league of nations issued passports to state less persons. Idealism combined with practical aspects = league of nations.
