Multilateral organisations fail to deal with collateral damage of Israel-Hamas conflict: Experts
collateral damage in the Israel-Hamas conflict has been of devastation, and the multilateral institutions have failed to deliver what they were set up to do, felt noted international affairs experts at a forum organised recently.
The forum was addressed by distinguished international law expert Dr. Robert Goldman and Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, India’s former envoy to Sweden and Kazakhstan. Dr. Eric Lob, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University; and Dr. Ziv Bohrer, Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law.
The virtually held panel discussion on “The Role of International Organizations in the Israel-Hamas War” was hosted by Usanas Foundation, a think tank in foreign policy domain.
Dr. Lob acknowledged the existence of “scepticism or cynicism concerning the role of International Organisations in the Israel-Hamas conflict” given the lack of “enforcement mechanisms” within these institutions. He also remarked how “power politics” within the UN supersedes other concerns and that the system designed by the US postwar has been both the cause of “American action and inaction.”
Sajjanhar began his remarks by stating that “over the last few years, the multilateral institutions have failed to deliver what they were set up to do.”
Dr. Goldman, observed the troubled history of the international organizations and that “the system has not functioned as envisioned because the Cold War colored the outlooks of various countries and the Security Council.”
Commenting on the current conflict, he said, “There's been tremendous and excessive use of force, and the collateral damage is really one of
