Day 1: Bell Work
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Day 1: Bell Work• Take out & pass forward ONLY the article
summary.• Take out the BBC Scavenger Hunt: we will go over
it quickly.– Exchange your sheet w/someone else in the class
• Take out the US & 3 other countries: Write down these 3 definitions.– Using these 3 definitions, choose which country is which
• Developed: countries that have a high level of development, based on GDP, education, health care, standard of living, production, etc.
• Developing: a nation with a low level of material well being. Working towards becoming a developed country.
• Un-developed: a nation that isn’t even working on becoming a developed country.
• Answer the worksheet: UN CHARTER
Day 2: Bell Work
• Take out your UN Charter wrksht.– Exchange with someone
• Take out your BBC UN Profile wrksht.– Exchange with someone different
• Take out a piece of paper for UN notes.
• Take out a 2nd piece of paper and fold it vertically (hot dog).
Day 3: Bell Work
• Take out a ½ piece of paper. Name on top and answer:– List the 5 permanent members of the UN
Security Council.– What 1 power do each of these 5 countries
posses?– Who is the Secretary General of the UN and
what country is he from?– What is the difference between Peacemaking
and Peacekeeping?
Objectives
• Students will be able to identify and be able to correctly use the different UN tactics/tools at their dispense during our Model UN project.
United Nations
Take out a piece of paper
to take notes on
Human Rights• UDHR: Universal Declaration of HR
– More rights than in Constitution– Everyone in world supposed to get when born,
but not everyone has.
• Examples– Live free from violence– Freedom of speech/press– Freedom of religion/assembly– Right to complain against or criticize the government– Right to privacy– Right to an education
UN Budget
• Member contributions based on ability to pay
• U.S. the largest payer with a $1.7 billion contribution funding 26% of the UN’s budget
• U.S. contribution is only .06% of the total annual U.S. budget of $2.8 trillion
U.S.
China
Russia
United Kingdom
France
All have veto authority in the Security Council
Susan Rice
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General
Resolution
•Statement of rules by the security council that is supposed to be followed by all UN members
Security Council Actions2 Ways to Peace
• Peacekeeping: soldiers sent into an area in an attempt to stop the fighting.– Either to separate sides or actual military action.
• Boxing ref or aggressor
– A country must consent to the presence of peacekeepers.
• Peacemaking: diplomatic negotiation of peace (no use of force)
• Divorce mediator (wedding crashers)
– Ceasefire: when both sides agree to stop fighting each other.
SanctionPenalty for disobedience
• Military– Disarmament: Halting the spread of weapons
• Collect weapons• Defuse/destroy weapons
– Even nuclear weapons
• Economic: Usually involves, limiting trade of specific goods like weapons, but could involve all goods (Embargo).
• Diplomatic– Removal of UN personnel
Humanitarian Aid
– Providing for the basic needs of groups of people who cannot provide for themselves.
• Basic human needs:– Food, Shelter, Clothing, Medicine
Hum. Aid often goes to Refugees
• Someone who has no home, either due to a natural or manmade disaster. • Someone who cannot return home for fearof an attack.
Commission a Study
• Researchers & experts are sent to study a problem.– Global problem: Global Warming or diseases– Country specific: Weapons or genocide
World Court• Based in the Peace Palace in The Hague,
Netherlands.
• Main functions is to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states.– Ex. Crimes against humanity (genocide)
International Agencies
Work Closely with the UN
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Bank
• World Health Organization
UN Agencies
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• World Food Program
SecretariatSecretary General – Ban Ki-moonRuns the UN on day-to-day basis
Oversees 9,000 employeesFace of the UN
GENERAL ASSEMBLYAll nations belongMeets in the fall
All nations vote – each has one vote
Main forum for debatePass resolutions – what they think
should be done, controversial ones need a 2/3 vote
Difficult to enforce resolutions
Security Council15 countries5 permanent countries—US, UK, France, China and Russia with veto power10 rotating countries – 2 year term, geographically distributedPass resolutionsEconomic sanctions – trade restrictions used to get a country to change its behaviorPeacekeeping – sending in soldiers to keep an area calmUse force – occasionalPeace making – negotiating a peace treatyStudying problemsSending humanitarian aid
GovernmentsDemocracy
• Form of govt. where all the ppl have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
• Includes equal participation in the proposal, development & passage of legislation into law. – US, Israel, Palestine,
Pakistan, S. Korea,
Dictatorship
• Government is ruled by an individual
• Power to govern without consent of those being governed– North Korea, China, Egypt,
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Vietnam
Economies
Capitalist
• Economic system – dominant in Western world
• Elements of capitalism: – private ownership of the
means of production– creation of goods or services
for profit or income– acquiring of capital (money)
Communist
• Economic system • Aims at the establishment of:
– a classless, – moneyless, – society structured upon
common ownership of the means of production
Organizations
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries)
• Coordinate & unify the petroleum policies and ensure the stabilization of oil markets.– Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran,
Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela
NATO
(N. Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Defensive military alliance of 28 countries– whereby its member states
agree to defend each other in response to an attack.
– Canada, France, Italy, UK, US, Greece, Germany, Spain, a lot of Eastern Europe
Groups of CountriesG-20• Top leaders in the 20 largest
developed & developing countries come together to discuss key issues in the global economy.– Ex: S. Africa, US, Canada,
Brazil, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, EU, Australia, Fr. UK, Germ., Italy
BRICS• Brazil, Russia, India, China,
S. Africa• are developing or newly-
industrialized countries,
EU/AU/Arab League• European Unions (EU): economic and political partnership
between 27 European countries. Fosters economic cooperation: countries that trade with one another are economically interdependent and will thus avoid conflict.
• African Union (AU): Group of 54 African countries that meet to discuss social, economic & political problems in Africa.
• Arab League: organization of Arab states in North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia (Middle East).– Currently 22 members & 4 observers.
– Main goal: draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration b/w them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries.
Non-binding Resolution
• Statement of purpose, but there is no penalty for UN members who do not follow these directions
– Ex: countries voluntarily agreeing not to ship weapons to a third country
• often happens when the country being targeted has a friend among the 5 permanent members of the security council
• Unilateral Sanctions: specific countries do on their own.
• Tariffs: taxes• Trade barriers