The Security Council Role in Keeping Peace in Africa – Libya As Case Study 2011 – 2017

Abstract

This research is about the role of the Security Council in keeping peace and security in Africa, shedding the light on the Libyan crisis as a case study considering it one of the highest intensity spots in Africa. A number of researches mythologies have been used; where the historical method was used in order to track the circumstances that led to establish the United Nations as a universal organization and its evolution, besides the begging of the Libyan crisis till the recent time. The descriptive method also has been used by the researcher in order to address the most important factors of the Libyan crisis, and the international interventions consequences of the Security Council and the international power states due this regard. The analytic method in order to find out the most important results of the mentioned interventions, in addition to the case study method. The researcher has reached to a number of findings have been approved in its entirety assumptions can be summarized as follows: 1- Article 36 of the Charter provides that, at any stage of a dispute of the kind described in Article 33, the Security Council can recommend to the parties appropriate procedures or methods of settlement of their dispute, which may include mediation. 2- There are two main impacts that can be discerned due the international intervention in Libya. First, the debates on Libya led to an explosion of discussions on R2P and increased international engagement with the emerging norm. Second, the controversies led to a shift in the international normative debates on protection by creating a coalition between those human security advocates who opposed stretching the mandate of Resolution 1973, and those countries with non-aligned or post-colonial perspectives that opposed regime change out of principle. This new coalition facilitated the start of an increased discussion about Security Council accountability and the criteria for humanitarian interventions. According to the previous findings the researcher put a number of recommendations can be summarized as follows: 1- Many reforms must be executed at the Security Council including the voting system and its membership. 2- The organization of the Islamic o-operation must be involve in many regional conflicts including the Syrian & the Libyan that its role is supposed to most more of these conflicts as a great organization its membership includes a wide spots of the Islamic states in many parts of the world.