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The Role of the Secretary General in the United Nations
Ouzká, Tereza ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Faix, Martin (referee)
The goal of this Thesis entitled The Role of the Secretary General in the United Nations is to respond to the following questions: What is the role of the Secretary-General in the United Nations and how did the position change due to historical circumstances. The Thesis opens with a chapter dealing with the evolution from the League of Nations to the United Nations focusing on the role of the Secretary General. The next Chapter concentrates on the competences of the Secretary-General in relation to the other UN bodies. The third Chapter analyzes reforms proposed by several of the Secretaries General. The essay also discusses the diplomatic role of the Secretary General in the international environment and his/her relationship with non-governmental parties and the private sector. The text proposes examples illustrating successes and failures of the Secretaries General in specific situations. The Thesis also focuses on expanding of competences of the Secretary General achieved by individual representatives of this function. The text demonstrates that the Secretary General plays an important role in today's globalized society despite the fact that this position is often marginalized by the other UN bodies.
Mediation in the UN: Role of the Secretary-General
Portešová, Veronika ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotná, Markéta (referee)
This thesis aims to evaluate the role of UN-Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the Syrian conflict and identify factors effecting mediation of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Research is focused on the period from January until August 2012. The study examines the Syrian conflict in terms of behaviour of parties, conflict phase and characteristics of mediator. The Secretary-General's role is analysed with regard to other tasks he might have assumed.
Conflict prevention with an emphasis on the UN
Čapková, Ivana ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to acquaint the reader with the ways in which the UN prevents conflicts, who the actors in conflict prevention within the Organization are and how the Member states participate in and are concerned about the preventive activities of the Organization. Furthermore, it should identify the causes of success or failure of preventive actions. The thesis in its first part deals with the theory of conflicts in international relations and theory of their prevention, especially with preventive diplomacy and its tools. The second part presents the theory of conflict prevention from the UN perspective and indicates its actors, their roles and possibilities. The last chapter shows real UN action on several successful and unsuccessful examples of preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and preventive deployment. Individual examples are evaluated on the basis of attained theoretical knowledge.

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