Social Architecture and actor classes macro, meso, micro, pico explained.
Also on United Nations: United Nations Statute/Treaty Book, United Nations Initiative Book,
The United Nations
- Welcome to the United Nations - it's your world (Official Site)
- United Nations (Wikipedia)
- List of United Nations member states (Wikipedia)
The United Nations has been established by Art. 7 of the Charter of the United Nations [1], which was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco. It is composed of six principal organs:
- UN General Assembly
- UN Security Council
- UN Economic and Social Council
- UN International Court of Justice
- UN Secretariat
- Trusteeship Council (inactive; no trusteeships at this time)
and (numerous) subsidiary organs (as have been found necessary) established in accordance with the Charter's article 57.
Today the United Nations includes organs covering most or all of the COFOG classes, as can be seen in the below tabs where the UN's organs are classified according to their area of focus (row: International).
The same tab-structure is used in Global Actors to classify non-UN international organizations, in European Union to classify European Institutions, and in Country Actor Maps for most countries of the world, to position national institutions.
Actors by COFOG/COPNI class
| Actors | COFOG 07: |
| COFOG | 07 with detailed structure and explanatory notes at COFOG Division 07 - Health |
| International | World Health Organization (WHO) (Actor Atlas link) 7.1 - Medical products, appliances and equipment (also COPNI 02.1): 7.2 - Outpatient services (also COPNI 02.2): 7.3 - Hospital Services(also COPNI 02.3): 7.4 - Public health services (also COPNI 02.4): 7.5 - R&D Health (also COPNI 02.5): 7.6 - Health n.e.c.: COPNI 02.6 - Other health services: |
| Actors | COFOG 04: |
| COFOG | 04 with detailed structure and explanatory notes at COFOG Division 04 - Economic affairs |
| International | UN Economic and Social Council (Actor Atlas link); 04.1.2 - General labour affairs: International Labour Organization COPNI 07.2 - Services of labour organizations: 04.1.1 - General economic and commercial affairs: World Trade Organization (Actor Atlas link); World Intellectual Property Organization; 04.2 - Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Actor Atlas link) 04.3 - Fuel and energy: 04.4 - Mining, manufacturing and construction: 04.5 - Transport: 04.6 - Communication: 04.7 - Other industries: 04.8 - R&D Economic affairs: 04.9 - Economic affairs n.e.c.: COPNI 07.3 - Services of professional organizations: |
| Actors | COFOG 01.2: |
| COFOG | 01 with detailed structure and explanatory notes at COFOG Division 01 - General public services |
| International | 01.1 - Executive and legislative organs, financial and fiscal affairs, external affairs:UN General Assembly 01.2 - Foreign economic aid: 01.3 - General services: United Nations Statistics Division 01.4 - Basic research: 01.5 - R&D General public services: 01.6 - General public services n.e.c.: 01.7 - Public debt transactions: 01.8 - Transfers of general character between different levels of government: COPNI 09.1 - Services n.e.c.: COPNI 09.2 - R&D Services: COPNI 07.1 - Services of political parties: |
Actors
These actors are included in the actor map of United Nations.
If an actor should be added, then create a newpage for it using the button under the list.
For an actor in United Nations, start the name with "UN-", this is a code, followed by a dash.
Introducing United Nations
Geographic and socio-economic information on the countries participating in United Nations is available from Country Actor Maps
Aim & Objectives
The aim of the UN is to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
More recently, the UN's programme priorities have been summarized under these headings [3]:
- A. Maintenance of international peace and security
- B. Promotion of sustained growth and sustainable development
- C. Development of Africa
- D. Promotion of human rights
- E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance
- F. Promotion of justice and international law
- G. Disarmament
- H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism
- I. Gender equality and empowerment of women
- J. Research and training institutes
Values
From the Preamble of the Charter:
- international peace and security
- human rights, the dignity and worth of the human person
- justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law
- social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom
- tolerance, living as good neighbours
Core Processes (in the three realms)
A resolution of the General Assembly, or of other organs, may contain a mandate that grants authority and responsibility to the Secretary-General or other implementing entities in the system to implement the request.
An electronic inventory of mandates originating from the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council is available at http://webapps01.un.org/mandatereview/searchStart.do (updated until 2005)
The implementing entities to which a mandate may be directed are listed here:
http://webapps01.un.org/mandatereview/processSearch_implementing.do?requestedForm=display_implementing&display_implementing=%3E&skipValidation=
