Is United Nations Security Council capable of maintaining Human Security without a necessary reform?

Abstract

’Security,’ according to the conventional definition, is defined as protection against foreign military assaults (traditional security). However, the current emergence of non-traditional security concerns related to health, environment, and energy requires an updated definition and involvement of a hegemonic organization for security maintenance purposes. An international organization already exists, named the Security Council of the United Nations, which is tasked with ensuring peace and global security. As technology and biotechnology advance, they could affect the earth’s inhabitants in various ways. The Security Council has the essential role of responding to current and future global security crises; however, through a glance into the history, the Security Council’s stagnation to respond is a result of its perilous structure and ambiguity in Chapter VII, which omits its full potential in terms of obligations to address global security crises. Therefore, the Security Council reforms seem necessary in order to prevent the world from descending into the dark ages because of the pragmatism of permanent members’ competition. Actors maintain a goal of trying to isolate and constrain their opponents by spontaneous and unanticipated measures within the structure of the Security Council. This ultimately does not leads to regaining the damaged originality of the security council and the United Nations by blocking it to respond strictly and effectively to security concerns. If not, consequently, the UN member states might pursue individual or regional actions to address non-traditional and traditional security concerns and defend their interests, as they currently started to do and were doing before forming the international system.