The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period ...

But organizing for peace is an endeavour that is just over a century old, starting as it did with the League of Nations in 1919. The League was a pioneering effort and, in the end, did not prevent ...

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at its far-flung global operations.

On that record has long stood the request of the same three nations to negotiate an Austrian peace treaty. On the same record still stands the request of the United Nations to negotiate the problems ...