What are the successes and failures of the United Nations?
Successes: 1. Preventing and damage control in some wars 2. De-colonialisation drive (in any case it was moving on its own; but needed some legitimacy to keep off from adventurers) 3. Under its auspices establishment of several independent bodies like International Court of justice, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, FAO, ILO, ITU and even WTO as well as several initiatives. Failures: 1. Inability to stop many wars. In some, allowing its legitimacy to be used by other adventurers. If Korean war was a case, the way Vietnamese fought their war and enforced their national will even on the most powerful has avoided that situation. They proved that they are better than Koreans. 2. Failure at various times to restrain some recalcitrant nations. In 1960 (DR) Congo’s PM’s Patrice Lumumba’s war against secessionist state Katanga under Moise Tshombe, ballooned into a situation where UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed when he was running for his life in Katanga jungles on the border with N.
