United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council, one of the United Nations’ six main bodies, is tasked with upholding and promoting world peace, security, and collaboration. The Charter of the United Nations gives the Security Council the mandate to investigate and debate on any situation that could endanger world peace; suggest peaceful dispute resolution and arbitration procedures; enforce full or partial economic sanction, order nations to cease sea, postal, and radio communications, or to sever diplomatic ties with aggressor states. Unlike other U.N. bodies which only have the mandate to make recommendations, the Security Council is the only United Nations body which is authorised to use force or any other necessary method to enforce its decisions.

​Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1992 - a region in the midst of chaos. The USSR had fallen, and Yugoslavia, the parent region of Bosnia, was alive with internal civil unrest. The unrest was characterised by the warfare among religious groups and was termed as the worst genocide in history, second only to the Second World War. Agitated by the peaceful secession of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, the Orthodox Christian Serbs were desperate to retain their majority influence in Yugoslavia, declared independence and established the Republika Srpska within the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and fought against the Bosniaks and the Bosnian Croats. This war was characterised by small instances of fighting sparking all-out ethnically driven battles, and bloodshed unseen since 1945. This committee will delve into the nuances of this multidimensional conflict, and hopes to bring back peace and stability to the region.