9.8: Institutions Developing in a
Globalized World
United Nations
- Purpose was to create a place where countries could hammer it out by talking instead of blowing each other up
- Successor to League of Nations, which had little power and failed to stop stuff like Hitler’s invasions
- Sometimes UN was downright ineffective
- Ex: In Rwandan Genocide, Hutus were slaughtering Tutsis but UN wasn’t able to intervene and prevent the killings
- Enacted Universal Declaration of Human Rights
NGOs
- Non-governmental organizations
- Examples: Red Cross, World Bank