Like its predecessor, the United Nations does not have its own standing armed forces, but calls on its members to contribute to armed interventions, such as during the Korean War and for the peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.
"At this point, the most urgent task at hand is to bring an end to war, to raging cross-border conflict that only brings anarchy, deeper polarization, more international armed interventions, heightened emotions, rage and recruitment videos for globalized jihadis".
In written statements, Congo said "despite promises and declarations" Uganda has pursued its policy of "aggression, its brutal armed interventions, its harassment and its looting".
Muslims in particular should note that the armed interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, both led by America, were attacks on Christian regimes in support of Muslim victims.
The Panthers saw a direct link between the country's armed interventions abroad — in Vietnam, Latin America, and Africa — and what Eldridge Cleaver, a Party leader, called the "bondage of the Negro at home".
This approach would align national interest with humanitarian or peacekeeping interventions and strengthen the Security Council's legitimacy, in cases of humanitarian horrors, as the sole arbiter of armed interventions.
