UN
World peace organization
The UN is the United Nations, an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among nations.
Its headquarters are in New York City.
The UN Security Council met to discuss the crisis.
The abbreviation appears in compounds: UN peacekeepers, UN resolution. (Lowercase un is an informal hesitation sound.)
Western defense organization
Discussion seeking mutual accord
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
mediation · arbitration · protocol · dialogue · envoy · ceasefire · resolution · multilateral
Central command location
- charterFounding organizational document
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- resolutionsFormal decisions or pledges
- agenciesOrganizations providing services
Preventing or ending conflict
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- accordHarmony between parties
observers · mission · neutrality · de-escalation · demilitarization · disarmament · truce
NATO
Western defense organization
negotiation
Discussion seeking mutual accord
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
delegation · mediation · arbitration · protocol · dialogue · envoy · ceasefire · resolution · multilateral · humanitarian
headquarters
Central command location
- charterFounding organizational document
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- resolutionsFormal decisions or pledges
agencies · mandate · sanctions · peacekeepers
peacekeeping
Preventing or ending conflict
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
accord · observers · mission · neutrality · de-escalation · demilitarization · disarmament · truce
- globalworldwide, global, international, universal, planetary
- abbreviationsMr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Jr
- International BodiesUnited Nations, EU, NATO, IMF, World Bank
- Foreign Affairsforeign affairs, foreign relations, diplomatic relations, embassies, ambassadors
- Global Affairsglobalization, United Nations, IMF, World Bank, G7
- Global Politicsforeign affairs, international affairs, global affairs, world politics, foreign relations
Sovereign political territory
sovereign nation · NATO · EU · OECD · G7
UNempire
Domain under unified control
world government · sovereign state · autocracy · dictatorship · national government
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
unilateralism · nationalism · America First · go-it-alone · national sovereignty
- UN Security CouncilWorld body overseeing peace
- union contractBinding pact between workers and management
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- labor unionCollective bargaining group
- K9 unitLaw enforcement canine team
- storage unitRented holding space
unit, union, unique, unity, unfair, unsafe, unfit, untie, unkind