| ID | 053729 |
| Title Proper | UN after Iraq |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Berdal, Mats |
| Publication | 2004. |
| Description | p83-101 |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The argument, widely made in the run-up to the war in Iraq, that the UN was on the verge of permanent marginalisation in the field of peace and security has turned out to be misplaced. The clearest sign of revitalisation has come not from its role in post-war Iraq but from the dramatic growth of UN peace operations in Africa since May 2003. While prophecies of doom may have been confounded, there is, within the Secretariat and among member states, still a deep sense that the war in Iraq ‘brought to the fore a host of questions of principle and practice’, whose implications have yet to be addressed. To do this, the Secretary General has set up a High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and indicated that ‘far-reaching institutional’ reform should be on the Panel's agenda. While references to institutional issues are politically unavoidable, the long-term value of the Panel's work will lie, more subtly, in its contribution to the quality of the discussion among member states about the threats and challenges facing them, not in proposals for radical Charter reform. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival Vol. 46, No.3; Autumn 2004: p83-101 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 46 No 3 |
| Key Words | Iraq ; United Nations ; Peacekeeping |