Since its inception in 1945, much of the effort of the United Nations has been aimed at the ‘maintenance of peace and security' and the ‘pacific settlement of disputes' - objectives set out in the UN Charter.

This chapter will briefly discuss the UN's methodology in the area of conflict resolution within the context of the typology on different approaches to dispute resolution outlined by Ury, Brett and Goldberg (1988). It will then focus more specifically on the UN's interest-based approach and suggest some of the lessons that can be learned for conflict resolution and peacemaking from UN experience.

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