Description
Security Council was established to preserve the reputation of civilized nations by using the veto power against the colonized countries. Conventions on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide were established by the international community in 1948 after the holocaust of Jews in World War II. The aftermath of the genocide followed, leading to the Cambodian genocide in the Cold War and genocides in Rawanda in the 1990s. This study aims to analyze the hierarchy of power among the permanent members of the Security Council that allowed them to veto according to their convenience. The research seeks to highlight the structural and functional paralysis of the Security Council, which has become the root cause of the extensive genocide in many third-world countries and colonized countries. The research aims to pinpoint the power dynamics relations among the members of the Security Council and deconstruct the existing legal limits in the Security Council in the face of genocide and war crimes. The methodology of this research is qualitative, and data will be collected from articles, books, podcasts, and documentaries. However, this paper proposes an alternative to the Security Council, where members must be elected from those countries that don’t have histories of supporting any war crimes and genocides but rather foster peace and harmony.
Keywords: Veto-Power, Security Council, Genocide, Power dynamics, War Crime, International legal frame order, Neoimperailism
