To build thorough understanding of the UN, Dominic researched predecessors of the UN—most notably, Woodrow Wilson’s exhausted League of Nations. By juxtaposing these findings with modern views of the United Nations, he built perspective that helped him examine past decades of debate over conflict, response, and prevention. To gain further insight on specific questions, he contacted several experts and traveled to record two interviews.
Through his website he aims to draw lessons from the UN’s telling founding. The successful creation of a global peacekeeping body, he shows, resulted from: (1) a largely American diplomatic effort carried out during war, when fighting forced mutual dependence among Allies and created necessary diplomatic trust; and (2) American leaders’ recognition of the need to engage the historically isolationist American public in debate about a more secure and peaceful future. Through Franklin Roosevelt’s early insistence that peace plans be formed we see that peace is achieved not through paralyzing fear of failure but constant effort, lest ignored discontent fester into conflict. Above all, we see that peace must be a perpetual priority. The UN forged less than a century ago is a tool not forced upon world powers, but rather a tool that channels the destructive capacity of technology towards multi-lateral action to address the inherently global issues of our day—climate, terrorism, and more. It is up to nations like our own to decide to use it cooperatively. |
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