United Nations and Global Conflicts

WEEK 1

1. The need for an international order
2. The scope of UNDHR
3. Peace and Ideologies
4. Objectives of UNO

WEEK 2

5. Liberal principles of UNO
6. Precedents of minority rights

7.1. UNO and Women’s rights

7.2 Adoption of UN Declaration and Convention of Women Rights

7.3 Role of CEDAW for promotion and protection of Women Rights

7.4 United Nations & Gender Based Violence Against Women
8. UNO, Media & Gender Stereotype

WEEK 3

9. UN & Gender Mainstreaming
10. UNO and Indigenous rights

11.1 Protection of minority under the UN charter

11.2 Role of the UN mechanism for promotion and protection of Minority rights
12. Structure of General Assembly and role

WEEK 4

13. Security Council: Its Structure Veto system and Security Council
14. Veto system and Security Council
15. Economic and Social Council
16. Contributions of ECOSOC

WEEK 5

17. Idea of ICJ
18. Landmark interventions of ICJ
19. Specialised agencies: Its importance
20. ILO: Structure and Role

WEEK 6

21. ILO: Issues and Labour rights
22. UNESCO: Main contributions
23. WHO: Issues and Contributions

24.1 WHO: Fighting Pandemics

24.2 The Shadow Pandemic and Violence Against Women

WEEK 7

25. UNICEF: Structure and Function
26. UNICEF and Child rights
27. UNDP and its Functions
28. UN Environment Programme and global climatic issues

WEEK 8

29.1 Refugee problems and UN

29.2 UNCHR: Refugee questions and stateless people’s rights
30. The UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR)
31. Peace Keeping: UN’s Role
32. Causes of Korean War

WEEK 9

33. Fallout of Korean War
34. Global Dynamic of Korean War
35. Korean War and UN
36. Korean crisis and arm race

WEEK 10

37. Vietnam War: Causes
38. USA and Vietnam war
39. Internal sovereignty and regional power struggle in Vietnam
40. Military alliances and ideological consequences

WEEK 11

41. Vietnam war: Hope and Despair
42. Afghanistan war: The cold war politics
43. Politics of Detente
44. Afghanistan and global power dynamics

WEEK 12

45. The rise of militancy in Afghanistan as a fallout
46. 9/11 attacks and Afghanistan
47. Balkan Conflict: Identity politics
48. The question of Serbs
49. The Bosnian dream

WEEK 13

50. Balkanisation: The Ethnicisation
51. The Human rights issues in Balkans
52. The issue of reforming UN
53. The issues raised by Global south
54. The problem of veto system

WEEK 14

55. Reforming the Security Council system
56. WHO and Critical claims
57. Demand for expanding security council
58. UN and lingering conflicts around the world
59. The question of Non-Self Governing territories

WEEK 15

60. UN and Climate change: Challenges and Prospects
61. Climate change and Responses of the Industrialised countries
62. Role of the developing countries and climate change

63.1 The Millennium Development Goals

63.2 The Millennium Development Goals

64.1 The Sustainable Development Goals: An Overview

64.2 The 17 Sustainable Development Goals

64.3 Sustainable Development goals and Disaster Risk Reduction

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