Topic: Dealing with Civil and Political Unrest
Country: Bangladesh
Delegate Name: Emily Zheutlin
School: Forest Hills Eastern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Bangladesh position papers GLIMUN 2014 committees
Civil and Political has become an international issue that affects a broad spectrum of nations. International efforts do not continually work out because they cannot find a clear distinction between right and wrong; This is due to the willingness of the interested parties. Often times the resolutions result on a nationwide call for peace or a call for chaos. The largest outpouring of civil unrest in recent years, the Arab Spring, resulted in the international committee to not know the next order of action. The UN can push for democracy, but they cannot give their endorsements because it tends to discriminate against other parties or groups. The current issue of ISIS emerged from the Syrian conflict between the Sunni people and Shi'a people. Beginning with the anti-government protest and resignation of their president, Ukraine is involved in the ongoing civil war with the Russians. Russian President Putin, one of the key figures of the war, was suspected to have funded and aided the rebels and sent soldiers across the border to fight with their side.
Bangladesh believes that the United Nations should not intervene in domestic civil and political crisis. Traditionally, Bangladesh has abstained from voting on these types of resolutions with few exceptions. We hold that civil and political unrest within a nation-state should be settled by that nation-state instead of the international community. Bangladesh deals with civil unrest ourselves and we do not need the international community to get involved.
The United Nations should keep out of civil and political issues in a nation-state. We need to trust that each nation’s government can handle their political and civil disputes on their own accord. The only exception to this is in times of extreme human rights violations.
