Topic: Improving Political Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Aaron Bernard
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Indonesia position papers GLIMUN 2012 committees
I am honored to representing the republic of Indonesia in UN general assembly debate to discuss how we can better find ways to peacefully resolve or manage conflicts around the world. This is the true mission of the United Nations; end the scourge of war and create an equitable peace founded on international cooperation.
To fully confront these topics we need to first look to the past as our guide. The UN has developed a number of instruments to address conflicts in all their manifestations. In the past several decades we as a body have had a hand in resolving conflicts in: Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, Timor Leste and many more.
The question we must now ask is whether the instruments of the past are adequate for our current challenges and challenges of the future. We as a body must evolve to twenty first century security conflicts.
There is no doubt that we live in a better world today than we did twenty years ago. There is no longer a cold war, or prospect of nuclear or world war. In spite of all of these facts, the statues and police’s of this institution and many across the globe still reflect a polarized cold war world of twenty years ago. We must evolve to this century.
To this end, the makeup of the Security Council must change; with the five permanent seats no longer being held in the hands of the victors of a war that took place almost seventy years ago.
The world must also embrace regional bodies with open arms. This body can look to Indonesia and ASEAN as a guide. Southeast-Asia was once a harbinger of border wars and proxy wars of extra regional powers, now through regionalist sprit, southeast-Asia has know a time of unprecedented peace an prosperity. We are in the process of adopting a legally binding code of conduct for conflict resolution. To that end, we strenuously recommend the same to all UN member nations.
Peace be upon us all.
