The effectiveness of the UN Security Council in the face of non-international armed conflicts

Abstract

The armed non-international conflicts and their consequences become one of the main challenges for the United Nations work in the light of the increasing interdependence between the issues that arise in the context of a particular country and preservation of international peace and security and the emergence of more restrictions on the legal principle of the inadmissibility of interference in internal affairs against  the growing attention for such international conflicts that have spread within countries in all over the world. As these conflicts pose a threat on international peace and security, this means that dealing with these conflicts and settling them is within the scope of competence of the Security Council, the executive organ of the United Nations organization that the Charter authorized to do the mission of holding primary responsibility in the field of keeping international peace and security and restoring them in the event of  breaching them.  Either because of an international or internal conflict, but there are some obstacles that stand in front of it which may be the cause of non-settlement of these disputes, though justifications do exist. The Security Council's dependence, in describing the states of  threatening international peace and security , on political estimates and not on legal standards indicating that it adopts the policy of double standards. Thus it may  intervene in areas rather than other areas. Moreover, the process of Council implementation is subjected to the international policy giving the decision-making authority to the permanent members of Security Council and making their interests prevail over humanitarian reasons for the implementation process. In general it can be said that the effectiveness of the Security Council facing non-international armed conflicts mainly depends on relations between the permanent members and the compatibility between them.