Title: The Security Council and Global Peace, “Issues and Challenges”
Abstract: The world consists of several sovereign states with multiple and diverse interest but paradoxically seeking for an integrated world order through deliberate and conscious approach instead of staying in isolation.The human society from incalculable period had suffered untold hardships arising from crises of varying dimensions such as the Cyprus, Chaco, Vietnam, Kosovo and world wars land II to mention afew.Against this background, at the conclusion of world wars II as a result of the failure of the League of Nations to avert that war, the United Nations Organization was born in 1945to restore International Peace and Security and prevent further regional and global wars.In recent times, there have been crisis in Liberia, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Egjpt etc despising collective security of the UN-Security Council.The purview of this paper therefore, is to examine the socio-political environments that facilitate these cleavages and uncertainties.The author observed that the weakness of the council to confront new realities in terms of desire for good governance and democracy and economic amancipation by the emerging states of Africa makes crises and insecurity to be of contemporary relevance in the region.The researcher observed further that there is a shfi of power for peace and security from the traditional Security Coi€ncil to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).The writer concluded that the frequent use of veto and double veto based on bloc politics weaken the council thereby given NATO a superior bargaining leadership role in the management of global peace and security.The author therefore recommended that for global peace and security to be guaranteed, the council should be re-structured, with contemporary realities of member states in terms of poverty, politics and socio-economic conditions.This paper relied absolutely on secondary sources of materials and in follow-up on current unfolding events in world politics.