Swords Into Plowshares: Building Peace Through the United Nations

This work brings together a number of contributions analyzing some of the most pressing issues in the present world, and suggests ways and methods to manage these problems. Topics covered are the decision-making in the UN Security Council; the position of the United States vis-a-vis the United Nations; human rights and economic and social development; sustainable development and human rights, democracy and others. The book hopes to influence the policy and decision makers to take the necessary action towards the solution of these problems.

This booklet may serve as both a provocative expose, as well as a useful reader, for academic courses addressing how decision makers should take active steps toward remedying [...] problems within the ambit of the UN's competence. International decision-makers would be wise to consider its recommended approaches in the continuing quest for collective solutions to international crisis. In: Newsletter UN21 Interest Group, 2006.