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    The UN has four critical roles in problem solving: controlling knowledge; establishing standards; recommending policies; and institutionalizing concepts. It formulates recommendations by analyzing issues like civil society and developing suggestions. While the UN Charter allowed NGO involvement, during the Cold War governments suppressed non-state voices. By the 21st century, civil society voices had multiplied, making them harder to ignore. The UN contributes ideas but still lacks mechanisms to ensure conformity with international standards.

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    Identifying and Diagnosing Problems, the UN's Comparative Advantage

    The UN's primary challenges in the twenty-first century are the same as they have been since 1945:
    knowledge, norms, policy, institutions, and compliance. A crucial role in any of the five stages might
    bring problem-solving efforts to a halt. The international organization has played and will continue to
    play four critical roles in detecting and diagnosing problems and thereby closing gaps: controlling
    knowledge; establishing standards; recommending policies; and institutionalizing concepts.

    Formulating Recommendations

    As new issues and norms develop, they reveal policy gaps that require attention as well. Once norms
    begin to shift and become ubiquitous, the next stage is to develop a range of potential mechanisms by
    which governments, their citizens, and IGOs might influence behavior. The policy stage is concerned
    with the formulation of principles and actions that an organization is expected to adopt in response to
    certain situations. Perhaps a straightforward but effective approach to demonstrate the process of
    developing suggestions is to analyze a major issue in global governance, namely civil society, and the
    UN's intellectual contribution to it. Since the Charter's inception, civil society, at the very least NGOs,
    have been present - Article 71 specifically permits for their involvement. NGOs, on the other hand,
    played a little role in an organization of member states during the Cold War, since governments,
    particularly those of the socialist bloc and the Third World, frequently sought to suppress non-state
    voices they regarded as a threat to sovereignty. By the twenty-first century, however, such voices have
    multiplied in number, diversity, and volume — making them much more difficult to ignore.

    Institutionalizing Ideas

    Perhaps a straightforward but effective approach to demonstrate the process of developing suggestions
    is to analyze a major issue in global governance, namely civil society, and the UN's intellectual
    contribution to it. Since the Charter's inception, civil society, at the very least NGOs, have been present -
    Article 71 specifically permits for their involvement. NGOs, on the other hand, played a little role in an
    organization of member states during the Cold War, since governments, particularly those of the
    socialist bloc and the Third World, frequently sought to suppress non-state voices they regarded as a
    threat to sovereignty. By the twenty-first century, however, such voices have multiplied in number,
    diversity, and volume — making them much more difficult to ignore. A policy must still be executed, and
    problems and flaws may arise during implementation. For example, the zero-tolerance policy regarding
    sexual exploitation of UN soldiers has been in place for some years, but the problem persists (Aoi, de
    Coning, and Thakur, 2007). Inevitably, even with complete information, appropriate standards, policies,
    and operations to support them, certain individuals or organizations will always cheat, challenge, and
    violate the standards and regulations. As a result, all communities have procedures in place to identify
    violators and outlaws, prosecute them, and punish convicted criminals, deterring future violators. The
    United Nations lacks the mechanisms and processes for ensuring conformity with international
    standards and regulations.

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