SEVENTY YEARS since it was formed, the United Nations (UN) is nowhere near arriving at its intended function as the supra-national body geared for world peace. That there is effectively no peace — as Pope Francis has said, World War 3 is already being fought through numerous small conflagrations — is obvious; from the regular Israeli assaults on Palestine to the burning Middle East stretching east to Afghanistan and north to Ukraine. Africa, as a continent, has never really been free of violence either. And yet, the UN, a post-World War 2 construct carried over from the failed League of …read more
Source: New Straits Times
