The United Nations Towards the Year 2000
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The UN is advancing towards the 21st century with a history of success, some failures, important transformations in its recent behavior, and a series of topics within its agenda that provide, half a century after its inception, a projection which is at once contemporary and fit to the needs of the immediate future. This essay examines three of the greatest challenges to humanity which the UN is firmly determined to solve: peace, development, and democratization. Peace and development are closely linked; and cannot exist without the other. Together, they encourage a process of democratization which can support them in turn Democratization also generates democracy. The UN and its member states must be capable to face up to the 21st century, and to construct both a lasting peace and a level of sustainable development which will allow the processes of democracy to take root.