Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T17:34:33.922Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Comment on Larry Johnson, “Uniting for Peace”

Part of: Uniting for Peace Resolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Henry Richardson
Henry Richardson*
Affiliation:
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Larry Johnson’s essay on the UN General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace resolution (UFP) is a useful general analysis of issues arising from UN Security Council Permanent Member veto-paralysis. His essay, which focuses on the text of the original Resolution, is directed at asking whether the UFP retains a current “useful purpose.” Relying on a text-centric interpretation of the presence or absence of subsequent invocations of the UFP, he concludes that no “useful purpose” remains, in part because evolved General Assembly authority has displaced the need to specifically invoke the UFP to make recommendations on certain issues of international peace and security. Johnson then asks whether, under the original UFP or subsequently, the Assembly may recommend to Member States “enforcement” uses of force, notwithstanding the prohibitions of Article 2(4) of the Charter. He finds Article 2(4) to be an absolute barrier to Assembly authority to recommend those measures, but not for “innovative and inventive non-use-of force measures.”

Type
Symposium on the Uniting for Peace Resolution
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 135 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Johnson, Larry D., “Uniting for Peace”: Does it Still Serve Any Useful Purpose?, 108 AJIL Unbound 106 (2014)Google Scholar.

2 UN Charter art. 2, para. 4.

3 United Nations Conference on International Organizations, San Francisco, California, April 25-June 26, 1945, Commission III: Security Council, Vol. XI (1945).

4 Roth, Kenneth, Syria: What Chance to Stop the Slaughter?, 60 N.Y. Rev. Books 18 (Nov. 21, 2013)Google Scholar.

5 SC Res. 500 (Jan. 28, 1982).

6 SC Res. 4526 (Sept. 17, 1960).

7 GA Res. 66/253 (Aug. 7, 2012).

8 UN Charter art. 10.

9 SC Res. 1970 (Feb. 26, 2011).

10 Case Concerning the Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicar. v. U.S.), Judgment, 1986 ICJ REP. 392 (June 27).

11 Benjamin, Barry M., Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention: Legalizing the Use of Force to Prevent Human Rights Atrocities, 16 Fordham Int’l L.J. 120 (1992)Google Scholar; Anthony D’amato, International Law: Process and Prospect (1987); Tanguy, Joelle, Redefining Sovereignty and Intervention, 17 Ethics & Int’l Aff. 141 (2003)Google Scholar.