Topic: UN's Role of Addressing Sectarian and Ethnic Conflict within a Nation
Country: Iran
Delegate Name: Chris Ransom
School: Traverse City West High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Iran position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
“To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention…of threats to the peace.”
This is the first line in Article I in the Charter of the United Nations. The entire purpose behind creating the United Nations was to prevent another world war and to see that peace was a global commonality. It is in today’s world that this goal is more imperative than ever. As a member of the United Nations, Iran has always been an advocate of peace and development, and in turn fully supports the United Nations in preventing and mediating problems of sectarian and ethnic violence within a country.
However, it is of great importance to preserve a country’s inalienable right of sovereignty. To this, regulations and guidelines must be made to with absolute clarity of when and how the United Nations is to take action upon situations such as these. Iran believes that through mediation and consul that a country can make great advances towards solving ethnic and sectarian conflict. It is when that consultation turns into foreign entity’s political agenda, with goals stretching outside the intended purpose, which it turns into a violation of the founding principles of the United Nations.
Iran strongly affirms that if a country is dysfunctional, whether in its sociological parameters or within the governmental system that a country cannot operate to its proper potential. While all avenues of solution should be observed, it is with absolute desperation and final measurement that the use of force should be implemented into a country suffering from such blight. History has time and time again, what rash and ill thought out actions in regards to the application of military force, can have not only on a country and its people, but the entire world.
Iran also strongly states that countries must strongly adhere to respect the governments in power within the nation involved. It is also that the United Nations, should it choose to become involved within the conflict, needs to include (if available) the current government in power when dealing with issues in its boarders in all mediations and negotiations concerning the conflicts at hand.
War shall, without a doubt, continue to touch this world. It is our job as delegates and representatives of such a world, to make sure that as little life as possible is lost, and that it is the rightful powers that hold rule over the land.
