ABSTRACT
Historically, thinking on War has bifurcated between its legal and moral facets. While the relevant legal facet comprises the legality of the resort to force and the legality of the use of force, the moral facet comprises of the counterparts of these issues. This chapter begins with an analysis of the legal rules that govern the resort to force by the UN as encompassed in the relevant Charter provisions. The ‘Just War’ theory is the preeminent line of thinking relevant to assessing the morality of resort to force. Threats to or breaches of the peace and acts of aggression are therefore, the primary vices UN Missions are expected to rectify by using force – thus creating their first tier of resort to force objectives. The chapter deduces these from records pertaining to specific Missions and will ultimately distil there from a second tier of UN resort to force objectives.
