Modern peace management is massively supported by the notion that new long-term conflicts should be managed within the framework of security agreements. This demonstrates a changing perception of peace from a precondition to a product of building a society with a human face. This is considered, as the UN Charter and post-World War II laws significantly re-oriented thinking, politics, economy, and culture towards peace, leading to an unprecedented long-standing global peace, except for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In a world with shrinking space, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has, until 2018, peacefully worked out 1041 drafts and declared 329 resolutions on international peace and security, among others, testifying to the relentless quest for global peace, security, and development worldwide. UNGA’s outstanding precedence as a peace-making body of the UN supports the adage, “Liberty, despite terror, will triumph in the end.” These UNGA bodies also pave the way for self-awareness, self-determination, and shared responsibility for international peace and security, deserting any love for wars and wars.
“Peace also re-establishes and strengthens the state and those institutions which are the guardians of security, freedom, and justice,” Pope John XXIII said in 1963. Against this background, the United Nations was called into life to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.” UN Article 1(2) underlines a central international legislative covenant to “develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace.”