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Building Peace through the United Nations: An Australian Perspective

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It is sometimes said that if the United Nations did not exist it would have to be invented. The most recent variation of this comment I have heard is that young students often do not know what the UN is but can see the need for an international organization like it. I propose to start this chapter by looking at what kind of international system we might invent if there were not a United Nations, with a particular eye to building global peace. I then plan to compare what emerges with what the United Nations is and represents now, and its potential.

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  1. David Purnell
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford, UK

    Tom Woodhouse (Senior Lecturer and Director) (Senior Lecturer and Director)

  2. Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Robert Bruce (Associate Professor of Politics) (Associate Professor of Politics)

  3. Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

    Malcolm Dando (Professor of International Security) (Professor of International Security)

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Purnell, D. (1998). Building Peace through the United Nations: An Australian Perspective. In: Woodhouse, T., Bruce, R., Dando, M. (eds) Peacekeeping and Peacemaking. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26213-7_11

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