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UN Crisis Project (Clark, Lytle, Thomas)

Choose a specific crisis or issue and assess: What motivated the UN to act (or not)? How successful the UN was in moderating the situation? Was the UN able to achieve goals of promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights?

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Great Debates at the United Nations
by Robert F. Gorman Provides information and critical examinations of the fifty most important issues debated in the history of the United Nations from 1945 to 2000.
Call Number: 341.23 Gor
Publication Date: 2001
Civil Wars of the World
by Uk Heo (Editor); Karl DeRouen (Editor) Covers some of the most volatile civil wars around the globe since World War II. An alphabetically-arranged resource.
Call Number: REF 909.82 Civ
Publication Date: 2007
Encyclopedia of Conflicts since World War II
by James Ciment (Editor) Highlights the conflicts and events that changed the course of late twentieth-century history. Organized by region.
Call Number: REF 909.825 Enc
Publication Date: 2006

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Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
UN Documentation: How to Find UN Documents
UN Research Guides

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Subjects: History, Upper School, World History

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