united nations

Basically, I’m thinking of a scenario where, faced with growing tensions, territorial and colonial disputes and arms races, the Great powers of the early 20th century come together at around the turn of the century or a little later but not after 1914 to found an international organisation, in...

The following document is translated (was on 8/12/1946) by the Non-Aligned Club of New Zealand, 31 Crummer Road, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand. The Observer The Independent Voice of the German Swiss 3rd December 1946 Italy and Germany split By Heinrich Schaefer The seven-year pact between...

With the End of the Second World War, the United Nations planned to play a much greater role in the world then the League of Nations ever had done, meaning they wished to prevent future conflicts and future wars of any kind whenever possible. At the same time the defeat of Nazi Germany and...

So I was at this Model United Nations event, and one of the students,who represented the UAE, proposed the idea of an artificial island to rehabilitate refugees and the stateless peoples. Can something like this actually happen? I guess it'll need to be administered by the United Nations, and be...

Challenge: With a POD between 1800 to 1900, create a intergovernmental organization that promotes peace and cooperation, a earlier “League of Nations/UN”. The purpose of this Intergovernmental Organization is to resolve conflicts, and promote cooperation between the Great Powers, to stop wars...

In our world, the UN is headquartered in New York City on a plot of land provided by Nelson Rockefeller. However, with a point of divergence anytime after World War II, where could the UN headquarters be located besides NYC?

Recently, I've been working on a draft for my first alternate history timeline here on this site, yet I wanted to see if my ideas were, at all, plausible. Additionally, I thought I'd also put this here just in case there was something I missed in my writing. In 1950, The Soviet delegation...

"People all over the world Join hands Start a love train, love train..." "The people deserve the best future..." -Ramon Magsaysay, 6th President of the Philippines, 1960 "'Solidarity' means sharing joy with the world whilst not forgetting our uniqueness..." -Claro M. Recto, late Philippine...

IOTL a common complaint against the UN is that is either: 1) a powerless joke or 2) utterly ineffective in its peacekeeping efforts (and sometime, both). With a POD post-WW2, what could've been done to make the United Nations a more effective and/or powerful organization? This can go either...

"It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland." - Horace It was always a spectacle when the First Citizen’s Zeppelin landed at the Capitol in Hoover, delivering the Princeps of mankind to the seat of his power. From the honour guard of navy jacketed Swiss soldiers of the Principal Guard...

With a POD after January 1, 1946, have a country voluntarily leave the United Nations (akin to how Japan and Germany left the LoN in the 1930s) as opposed to expelled (like Taiwan) or suspended (like South Africa or Serbia/Yugoslavia). Bonus points if you avoid either World War 3 breaking out or...

WI "The Right to Refuse to Kill" was added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Was it feasable? Would it have consequences? Currently it can be appealed to indirectly via Article 18 of the UDHR( the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion) and efforts are being made to...

At the end of WW2, the Republic of China, alongside the US, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France were made members of the UN Security Council. The Republic of China War then replaced by its predecessor, the People's Republic of China. But, had the Chinese Civil War ended in a stalemate...

Alternative names for the United Nations What names are possible for the united nations? The name can not have league or any reference the league of nations in its name Possible names Using country instead of nations like '' United Countries '' Union of nations Unified nations Group of nations...

Please see the link below for more information about this forgotten battle: Reviewing this video, I have to ask what would have happened if the Serb forces decided to move against the Canadian peacekeepers stationed on the hill overlooking the battle? Or what would have happened if the Serb...

In 2013 the micronational community had been pushed around for a long time. The Micronations of the Virtuan Alliance Republic, Principality of sealand, and the Pheonix Empire, all join up to form the Coalition of Allied Microstates. The Coalitions gains traction and popularity in early 2014 and...

Basically an Arab community and a Jewish community gets created in Palestine along the original UN partition plan borders, seen below. The two regions are united under a single federal government in Jerusalem, but with large autonomy given to the two communities, not unlike Bosnia today, or...

United We Stand: A Stargate Timeline Part I: Out of the Cradle Chapter 1: First Contact Governor’s Mansion, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 12th, 1991 7:18PM Rain pattered on the windows as Governor William Jefferson Clinton and Hilary Rodham Clinton sat quietly in the main study. In the...