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The foundation of the United Nations in 1945 represented the end of a long process
in international law to ostracize war: "The sense of awareness
caused by the Second World War brought about the United Nations Charta under the leadership of the United States in which art. 2, item 4 not only prohibited war but also the use of military
aggression, which were replaced by a set of rules for reaching agreement that were laid out in chapters VI and VII. The Charta is justifiably referred to as "groundbreaking" in terms of international
law. (Ernst-Otto Czempiel).
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The following article provides background information on the peace strategy of international law:
the birth and development of international law
The following article provides background information on the peace strategy known as "international organization":
the birth and development of international organization
The following picture is of the sculpture in front of the UN building in New York:
The ban on the use of aggression in the United Nation's Charta
"International law expressly forbids the threat or use of aggression between
nations. This basic principle is expressed in article 2 item 4 of the United
Nations' Charta. According to this,
„all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any
state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations“.
In technical
terms, the Charta does not interpret "violence" as being identical with "war". As far as the statute's understanding of violence is
concerned, it means force of arms, that is, military aggression. To this end, the ban on the use of aggression also encompasses things like
intervention, military reprisals and armed border incidents. The ban on the use of aggression leaves untouched the right of individual or collective
self-defense, as well as binding collective sanctions that have been authorized by the Security
Council."
[Taken from: Auswärtiges Amt (Hrsg.): ABC der Vereinten Nationen, Berlin 2000, p. 48]
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