Ralph Bunche Free Essay Example, 3250 words

Findings To begin to analyze any person’s legacy, the first place one should turn to is that person’s own words. The same holds true for Bunche as well. First off, Bunche felt that the mere creation of an international organization, such as the UN, was not enough to bring about world peace: â€Å"But international organization is not enough! The bare framework of a world league and court constitutes no guarantee of perpetual or even immediate peace! † (Henry 18). Obviously this is the case as the UN has been in existence for over fifty years and there are still conflicts and instances of genocide taking place. It should be noted that even if an actual world peace is not accomplished, it is still a worthy goal to strive towards. As Bunche said, the existence of a world league is not enough in itself. As it is, not every country participates in the UN. In order for any sort of world peace to be reached, every country would have to participate in the presiding world league. We will write a custom essay sample on Ralph Bunche or any topic specifically for you Only $17.96 $11.86/pageorder now This would require for any country to be able to make concessions: â€Å"World courts, world leagues, world pacts of all sorts, are futile unless solidly backed by an international citizenry willing to sacrifice for its realizations† (19). Sacrifice is the most important idea here. In Bunche’s view there would be no way to accomplish world peace through military force. If some country was for some reason or another seeking conflict, and another country or world organization came along and conquered that country in order to keep it from attacking other countries, there would have been much hatred spread through those means. A county that has been conquered is going to feel resentful to those that conquered them. They would be less likely to cooperate and would always pose a problem in the future for safety of other countries. If, however, a country is able to be dissuaded from attacking others through diplomatic means, then it would be seen as the decision of that country to not attack, and this country would feel as though they weren’t forced into anything. The only way that one country could persuade its citizenry to invade another country would be to dehumanize the country being invaded. The only way to do this would be to make the citizens of one country hate another. It is in hate that people are able to do some of the things that they are through military means. As long as one group of people hates another, there will not be world peace. There was a way that Bunche saw to solve this problem: â€Å"If people can, by educated processes, mutually arrive at greater understanding and sympathy, these hatreds will in large measure be dissipated† (22).