How may the UN play a role in resolving conflicts within sovereign states? Conflicts within sovereign states are one of the most difficult matters in the international society. Some conflicts can be ended without the intervention of outer organizations. However, other conflicts like the case of Libya in 2011 might need the outer intervention. Also, it is hard to expect the UN to intervene in such sovereign states. This is because we can hardly get the full consensus of the great powers. Some of them tend to protect the dictatorship states for the sake of the survival of their own regimes, even if such states ignore the human right and crack down their people. In this situation, the UN at least can spread and make the public opinion understand the information of their wrongdoings. The members of the UN can also promote other organizations such as NATO to take measures to end the conflicts. This doesn’t mean the UN is not working correctly but the UN is taking advantage of the wide scale of its organization. Let us consider the case where we can get the full consensus of the great powers. In this case, we are able to decide the intervention in a certain conflicts within sovereign states. However, in general, we must respect the right of sovereign states in order to avoid political intervention. Thus, this case has difficulty resolving, too. Overall, there is a lot of limitation about resolving conflicts within sovereign states. We must consider this problem and try to make the UN take actions in any situations.