This activity explores the contentious issue of bias in the UN. You may choose to watch a lecture on this topic, and/or to complete the below reading.
Watch the video:
Professor Hannibal Travis, ‘Preventing Genocide in the Middle East: The Continuing Relevance of the Ottoman Experience and the Problem of Bias within the United Nations’: (47:30)
Explore this issue further in the following reading:
Justin Gruenberg, ‘An Analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Are All Countries Treated Equally?’, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 41, no. 2 (2009), pp. 469-511, Available at:
http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=jil
UN Reform Activity Five (Extension Activity)
This activity explores the contentious issue of bias in the UN. You may choose to watch a lecture on this topic, and/or to complete the below reading.
Watch the video:
Professor Hannibal Travis, ‘Preventing Genocide in the Middle East: The Continuing Relevance of the Ottoman Experience and the Problem of Bias within the United Nations’: (47:30)
Explore this issue further in the following reading:
Justin Gruenberg, ‘An Analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Are All Countries Treated Equally?’, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 41, no. 2 (2009), pp. 469-511, Available at:
http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1268&context=jil
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