Day 1: Bell Work Take out & pass forward ONLY the article summary. Take out the BBC Scavenger Hunt: we will go over it quickly. –Exchange your sheet w/someone.

Day 1: Bell Work• Take out & pass forward ONLY the article

summary.• Take out the BBC Scavenger Hunt: we will go over

it quickly.– Exchange your sheet w/someone else in the class

• Take out the US & 3 other countries: Write down these 3 definitions.– Using these 3 definitions, choose which country is which

• Developed: countries that have a high level of development, based on GDP, education, health care, standard of living, production, etc.

• Developing: a nation with a low level of material well being. Working towards becoming a developed country.

• Un-developed: a nation that isn’t even working on becoming a developed country.

• Answer the worksheet: UN CHARTER

Day 2: Bell Work

• Take out your UN Charter wrksht.– Exchange with someone

• Take out your BBC UN Profile wrksht.– Exchange with someone different

• Take out a piece of paper for UN notes.

• Take out a 2nd piece of paper and fold it vertically (hot dog).

Day 3: Bell Work

• Take out a ½ piece of paper. Name on top and answer:– List the 5 permanent members of the UN

Security Council.– What 1 power do each of these 5 countries

posses?– Who is the Secretary General of the UN and

what country is he from?– What is the difference between Peacemaking

and Peacekeeping?

Objectives

• Students will be able to identify and be able to correctly use the different UN tactics/tools at their dispense during our Model UN project.

United Nations

Take out a piece of paper

to take notes on

Human Rights• UDHR: Universal Declaration of HR

– More rights than in Constitution– Everyone in world supposed to get when born,

but not everyone has.

• Examples– Live free from violence– Freedom of speech/press– Freedom of religion/assembly– Right to complain against or criticize the government– Right to privacy– Right to an education

UN Budget

• Member contributions based on ability to pay

• U.S. the largest payer with a $1.7 billion contribution funding 26% of the UN’s budget

• U.S. contribution is only .06% of the total annual U.S. budget of $2.8 trillion

U.S.

China

Russia

United Kingdom

France

All have veto authority in the Security Council

Susan Rice

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary General

Resolution

•Statement of rules by the security council that is supposed to be followed by all UN members

Security Council Actions2 Ways to Peace

• Peacekeeping: soldiers sent into an area in an attempt to stop the fighting.– Either to separate sides or actual military action.

• Boxing ref or aggressor

– A country must consent to the presence of peacekeepers.

• Peacemaking: diplomatic negotiation of peace (no use of force)

• Divorce mediator (wedding crashers)

– Ceasefire: when both sides agree to stop fighting each other.

SanctionPenalty for disobedience

• Military– Disarmament: Halting the spread of weapons

• Collect weapons• Defuse/destroy weapons

– Even nuclear weapons

• Economic: Usually involves, limiting trade of specific goods like weapons, but could involve all goods (Embargo).

• Diplomatic– Removal of UN personnel

Humanitarian Aid

– Providing for the basic needs of groups of people who cannot provide for themselves.

• Basic human needs:– Food, Shelter, Clothing, Medicine

Hum. Aid often goes to Refugees

• Someone who has no home, either due to a natural or manmade disaster. • Someone who cannot return home for fearof an attack.

Commission a Study

• Researchers & experts are sent to study a problem.– Global problem: Global Warming or diseases– Country specific: Weapons or genocide

World Court• Based in the Peace Palace in The Hague,

Netherlands.

• Main functions is to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states.– Ex. Crimes against humanity (genocide)

International Agencies

Work Closely with the UN

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• World Bank

• World Health Organization

UN Agencies

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

• World Food Program

SecretariatSecretary General – Ban Ki-moonRuns the UN on day-to-day basis

Oversees 9,000 employeesFace of the UN

GENERAL ASSEMBLYAll nations belongMeets in the fall

All nations vote – each has one vote

Main forum for debatePass resolutions – what they think

should be done, controversial ones need a 2/3 vote

Difficult to enforce resolutions

Security Council15 countries5 permanent countries—US, UK, France, China and Russia with veto power10 rotating countries – 2 year term, geographically distributedPass resolutionsEconomic sanctions – trade restrictions used to get a country to change its behaviorPeacekeeping – sending in soldiers to keep an area calmUse force – occasionalPeace making – negotiating a peace treatyStudying problemsSending humanitarian aid

GovernmentsDemocracy

• Form of govt. where all the ppl have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.

• Includes equal participation in the proposal, development & passage of legislation into law. – US, Israel, Palestine,

Pakistan, S. Korea,

Dictatorship

• Government is ruled by an individual

• Power to govern without consent of those being governed– North Korea, China, Egypt,

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Vietnam

Economies

Capitalist

• Economic system – dominant in Western world

• Elements of capitalism: – private ownership of the

means of production– creation of goods or services

for profit or income– acquiring of capital (money)

Communist

• Economic system • Aims at the establishment of:

– a classless, – moneyless, – society structured upon

common ownership of the means of production

Organizations

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum

Exporting Countries)

• Coordinate & unify the petroleum policies and ensure the stabilization of oil markets.– Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran,

Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela

NATO

(N. Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• Defensive military alliance of 28 countries– whereby its member states

agree to defend each other in response to an attack.

– Canada, France, Italy, UK, US, Greece, Germany, Spain, a lot of Eastern Europe

Groups of CountriesG-20• Top leaders in the 20 largest

developed & developing countries come together to discuss key issues in the global economy.– Ex: S. Africa, US, Canada,

Brazil, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, EU, Australia, Fr. UK, Germ., Italy

BRICS• Brazil, Russia, India, China,

S. Africa• are developing or newly-

industrialized countries,

EU/AU/Arab League• European Unions (EU): economic and political partnership

between 27 European countries. Fosters economic cooperation: countries that trade with one another are economically interdependent and will thus avoid conflict.

• African Union (AU): Group of 54 African countries that meet to discuss social, economic & political problems in Africa.

• Arab League: organization of Arab states in North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia (Middle East).– Currently 22 members & 4 observers.

– Main goal: draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration b/w them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries.

Non-binding Resolution

• Statement of purpose, but there is no penalty for UN members who do not follow these directions

– Ex: countries voluntarily agreeing not to ship weapons to a third country

• often happens when the country being targeted has a friend among the 5 permanent members of the security council

• Unilateral Sanctions: specific countries do on their own.

• Tariffs: taxes• Trade barriers