United Nations Organisation (UNO)

You have probably seen a UN peacekeeper’s blue helmet in a news photograph, or heard that “the Security Council could not agree” on some crisis, without ever being told what body actually sits behind either sentence. The United Nations Organisation (UNO) is that body — the permanent, near-universal club of the world’s States, built after the Second World War so that force would answer to something other than force. Every other topic in this module — the UN’s own organs, the specialised agencies it spun off, the regional blocs that sit alongside it, and the global problems it now exists to manage — is a piece of what UNO set out to be.

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The United Nations is the permanent organisation of States formed after the Second World War to keep peace, build cooperation between nations, and coordinate the world’s response to problems no single country can solve alone — and everything else in this module is a part of that one project.

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