lic declaration took considerable strides in the effort to one-day achieve world peace. It explicitly states what can and cannot be tolerated by the international community, and denotes exactly what rights must be enjoyed by all of the world's peoples. However, in result, this document simply explicates those societal ideals valued by many of the world's most powerful (and therefore influential) states. For this reason, the UDHR is a flawed entity and is unable to sufficiently manage the affairs of the international system.
             In fact, the United Nations in general has been largely ineffective in resolving many ethnic conflicts. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is just one of a number of fruitless tactics employed by the UN to mollify volatile ethnic crises. Additionally, the United Nations works to monitor emergent cultural struggles, guarantee unbiased national elections, and enforce state compliance with UN human rights standards, as well as punish those in violation (Mingst, p.269). Unfortunately, many ethnic conflicts are rooted too deeply within a culture for such limited international intervention and imposition of ideals to truly remedy the situation.
             Regardless, as the world is ever more influenced by Western principles, the international political system increasingly endorses ethnic tolerance and integration within states. However, there remain several "hotspots" in which ethnic conflict continues to thrive. In the following essay, I will analyze a number of states experiencing ethnic conflict, including Somalia, Rwanda, and Israel, and illustrate how their struggles may not be resolved by current UN strategies for intervention. I will also further discuss various flaws in the United Nations' peacekeeping policies, and examine how these shortcomings lead to impotence in effecting any sort of peace in ethnic struggles.
             United Nations Efforts to Resolve Ethnic Conflicts
             To recapitulate, the United Na...