Terms

  1. Sustainable development

  2. Poverty

  3. Paris Accord

  4. Refugee

  5. Humanitarian

  6. Expulsion

  7. ISIL

  8. Security Council

  9. Extremism

  10. General Assembly

  11. Resolution

  12. Insurgency

  13. Proxy

  14. Internally displaced person

  15. Peacekeeping

  16. Sanctions

  17. Diplomacy

Definitions

  1. economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.

  2. the state of being extremely poor.

  3. an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.

  4. a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

  5. concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare.

  6. the process of forcing someone to leave a place, especially a country.

  7. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) The undefined region around Syria is historically referred to as the Levant (an archaic French phrase for the "lands of the rising sun”), including modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan; sometimes called ISIS, Islamic State or Daesh also.

  8. The central body of the United Nations comprised of 5 permanent member countries and 10 non-permanent member countries which is the primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace. Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations. Under the charter, the council is permitted to dispatch a UN force to stop aggression.

  9. the holding of extreme political or religious views; fanaticism.

  10. The principal body of the United Nations, in which each member nation is represented and has one vote.

  11.  a formal text adopted by a United Nations (UN) body. Although any UN body can issue resolutions, in practice most resolutions are issued by the Security Council or the General Assembly.

  12. a movement within a country dedicated to overthrowing the government.

  13. the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting.

  14. An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the current legal definition of a refugee.

  15. the active maintenance of a truce between nations or communities, especially by an international military force.

  16. a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

  17. the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.

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