UN Structure
This article of the UN Charter outlines the purposes of the United Nations.
What is Article 1?
This chapter of the UN Charter allows the Security Council to authorize military action.
What is Chapter VII?
Binding agreements between states.
What are treaties?
The UN’s 17 global goals adopted in 2015.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
This type of clause appears before the operative clauses and is not numbered.
What is a preambulatory clause?
This UN body promotes social and economic development worldwide.
What is ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council)? 18?
Blue helmets are associated with this UN activity.
What is peacekeeping?
This court prosecutes individuals for genocide and war crimes.
What is the International Criminal Court?
This agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This motion allows delegates to challenge the chair’s ruling.
What is an appeal to the decision of the chair?
The UN body that can suspend a member state’s rights and privileges upon Security Council recommendation.
What is the General Assembly?
The legal doctrine often cited to justify humanitarian intervention without Security Council authorization.
What is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm? (also will accept human intervention doctrine)
The crime involving intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
This UN agency focuses on refugees.
What is UNHCR?
The required minimum number of countries to begin official voting.
What is quorum?
This rarely used General Assembly procedure, established under Resolution 377, allows the Assembly to convene within 24 hours to address threats to international peace when the Security Council is deadlocked.
What is an Emergency Special Session?
The 2005 World Summit Outcome Document formally endorsed this emerging principle.
What is Responsibility to Protect?
This principle allows states to prosecute certain crimes regardless of where they occurred.
What is universal jurisdiction?
This 1973 oil embargo reshaped global economic diplomacy.
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
In Security Council simulations, this power can instantly block substantive resolutions.
What is the veto?
Under Article 27, this condition must be met for Security Council substantive resolutions to pass.
What is the concurring votes of the permanent members (no veto)?
This 1994 failure is frequently cited as the defining breakdown of UN peacekeeping mandates.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
This 1969 convention governs treaty formation and interpretation.
What is the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties?
This doctrine describes economic interdependence reducing the likelihood of war.
What is liberal institutionalism (or commercial peace theory)? (will also take Kantian Peace and Liberalism)
In many General Assembly simulations, this procedural requirement mandates that at least two speakers must speak in favor and two against a motion before a vote can be taken on it.
What is 2-for-2 against?