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Contributor: Fleabag
Date: 2003-03-13 18:38:00
One of my ideas to encourage and foster involvement in, and commitment to, the unbiased enforcement of UN resolutions is an 'international militia'. Member nations could be asked (or required) to offer a fixed amount, or percentage, of it's military or citizens to do a certain term in the 'UN militia'. Adherence to these terms could earn the member nations 'credits' toward or in lieu of monetary contributions.
many countries, especially socialist ones, require a couple of years of military service from those capable for national defence. The UN as of now relies on such 'donated forces' for peacekeeping missions, but they have never been used to 'enforce' resolutions. There would be no comparable example of an impartial force in the world such as this. It would have to be able to also access military intelligence of it's member nations and also have some form of permanent military command structure.
This is a very rough idea of how the UN could make a viable 'world militia', but it is deeply dependent on the willingness of it's members to commit to world peace rather than it's own interests. However, in the long run, truly peaceful nations would not have to expend so much of it's own resources on 'self-defence' if there were a credible body (such as the UN) to rely on to come to it's aid in times of strife.
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