4.3 Assignment
For this assignment, you will be writing a multi-paragraph composition in which you evaluate the effectiveness of the UN by responding to several paragraphs from a secondary source document.
Read the following three paragraphs which come from the document >The Canadian Contribution to UN Peacekeeping - 2007.
Canada has traditionally believed that working with other nations offers the best hope for dealing with global problems such as pollution, racial discrimination, hunger, sexual discrimination, and others that trouble and ultimately affect Canadians.
Critics argue the UN is ineffective, inefficient and unable to solve problems such as world hunger, or to prevent atrocities during conflicts. UN peacekeeping forces were unable, for example, to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide, or to protect civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War.
Defenders of the organization argue that however frustrating the UN system may at times be, its essential purpose is being served as long as it provides the principal forum for discussing issues of conflict and human security, and as long as it helps prevent the centuries-old effort to create a world order through violent conquest.
Structure your composition accordingly:
Paragraph 1 - Introduction to the UN
Paragraph 2 - Response to critics of the UN
Paragraph 3 - Response to defenders of the UN
Paragraph 4 - Problems that Canada believes the UN can deal with and why
You should base your composition upon the readings in this section. You do not have to do any research outside of the course, but if you do, you will need to cite your sources.