Formation, Objectives, Purposes and Principles

Ask a hundred students to define the United Nations and most will manage a sentence. Ask them to separate what it was created to do (its objectives), what its founding treaty commits it to (its purposes), and the ground rules its Members must follow (its principles), and most go blank — because the syllabus tests exactly that separation, and this sub-topic rewards precision more than almost any other in Module 4.

In two minutes

UNO was formed at the San Francisco Conference of 1945 to succeed the League of Nations; its Charter states four purposes in Article 1 and six principles in Article 2, and keeping “purpose” and “principle” apart is the whole mark scheme for this topic.

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