Introduction According to Schnabel (304), the United Nations (herein referred to as the UN) is an international body charged with the responsibility of maintaining international peace. In addition, the body is charged with the responsibility of ensuring international security, cooperation, as well as social and economic development. Schnabel (305) further insists that these responsibilities of the UN can only be achieved through collaboration with member states and employees of the organization at the grassroots level, especially women and children, who are war victims. The UN is also mandated to ensure that member states adhere to the provisions of international laws, such as human rights (United Nations Education for Conflict Prevention 205). The body was set up back in the year 1945 as a replacement of the League of Nations. The need to replace the League of Nations with the United Nations was largely inspired by the failure of the League of Nations to prevent the outbreak of war among nations. To ensure that the UN does not fail as its predecessor, the League of Nations, it is important to educate members of the public to enhance global peace (United Nations Education for Conflict Prevention 205). It is noted that the League of Nations was set up immediately after the end of the First World War. The establishment was meant to prevent outbreaks of war between nations in the future. The outbreak of the Second World War, therefore, meant that the League of Nations had failed in its mandate to promote and maintain international peace. As a result of this, world leaders saw the need of creating a stronger organization that will prevent the outbreak of what came to be referred to as the ‘Third World War’. The United Nations was, therefore, formed in the process. The UN intends to achieve international peace through democratic and peaceful means, rather than through the use of force. Doyle claims that “democracy promotes peace and mutual respect among democratic people” (p. 5). He goes ahead to state that democracy promotes human rights and decreases state repression (Doyle 4). According to the scholar, “…….democratic liberalism embodies a constitutional government” (Doyle 6). Though the United Nations is regarded as a body that is totally independent from the League of Nations, the organization borrowed a lot from the latter’s organizational structure. Furthermore, the League of Nations remained in existence to see to it that the United Nations was successfully established. According to Drezner (9), the League of Nations shielded the UN from financial and logistic crisis during its formative stages. The observation explains the reason why the League of Nations was formally dissolved on April 1946, whereas the United Nation was formerly formed in October 1945 (Drezner 9). Membership to the organization is open to any nation in the world, provided the aspiring member meets the laid down requirements. Critics have accused the organization of favoring developed nations, especially the United States of America, thus undermining the trust of other nations as far as the organization is concerned. According to Ruggie (32), the United Nations has in the past been criticized for prote