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Pre-Reading:
UN - Student Pre-Reading - The United States and the UN Security Council Feb 2022.docxIntroduction
Introduction
“you have to actively promote this order in order to sustain it.”
Cognitive Lesson Objectives:
Understand the purposes of the UN and UN Global Issues
Describe UN actions that support American Values, Interests, and Priorities
Affective Lesson Objective:
Value the UN’s role in supporting US National Interests & National Security
Introduction to the United Nations
Introduction to the United Nations
What is the United Nations?
United Nations: https://www.un.org/en/
Security Council: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/
Economic and Social Council
General Assembly: https://www.un.org/en/ga/
Vienna Convention (Law of Treaties): https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf
International Court of Justice (ICJ): https://www.icj-cij.org/home
Settles dispute between States in accordance to International Law
Signature vs Ratification
International Criminal Court (ICC): https://www.icc-cpi.int/
Investigates and tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
The United Nations...
The United Nations...
Article 1 of the UN Charter
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
To be a centre for harmonizing nations’ actions to attain these common ends.
UN Global Issues and American Interests Activity:
UN Global Issues and American Interests Activity:
Go to https://www.un.org/en/global-issues and divide into groups (2-3/group) based on shared UN global interests.
Groups should be prepared to discuss the following with the class:
Why is the global issue important to the world.
What the UN is doing about the issue?
What bodies of the UN or Specialized Agencies are involved in the global issue?
Which Non-Government Organization (NGO) is involved with the global issue (minimum 2)?
Which Intergovernmental Organization (IO), if any, is or could be involved with the global issue?
also;
How is your global issue and associated UN actions connected to American Values, Interests, and Priorities (as many as possible)
Ifso, how the US is supporting the UN actions
Resources:
The Essential UN https://www.un.org/en/essential-un/
UN – Our Work https://www.un.org/en/our-work
Validating America’s Core Values and Vital Interests to Recraft its Grand Strategy and Grand Strategic Assumptions (American Vital Interests Paragraph) https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2021/6/24/validating-americas-core-values-and-vital-interests
Wrap-up
Wrap-up
Global Issues
American Interests & UN Ops
Cognitive Lesson Objectives:
Understand the purposes of the UN and UN Global Issues
Describe UN actions that support American Values, Interests, and Priorities
Affective Lesson Objective:
Value the UN’s role in supporting US National Interests & National Security
Additional Resources:
UN - In-Class Readings - Student Activity - Validating America’s Core Values and Vital Interests Jun 2021.pdfUN - In-Class Readings - U.S. Relations With Taiwan - United States Department of State.pdfPage updated
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