The United Nations is a large and complex organization, especially when you include all of its specialized agencies and other bodies. In fact, to help you see how complex the organization is, I have included a link to the clearest, complete U.N. organizational chart here [https://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/un-organisational-chart.pdf] so that you will have a clearer idea of how all of the U.N. parts fit together.

On the side, you’ll see the menu of topics that you can use to start your search to learn more about the different parts of the United Nations:

• Research Portals and Guides will give you a headstart by taking you to some of the best guides and sources for starting your research on the United Nations.
• International Movements within the United Nations pulls together the diverse strands of various global social movements—such as decolonization and the women’s movement—that animated the United Nations but also the wider arena of international history.
• U.N. Organizations provides some additional bibliography for many of the U.N. organs (such as the General Assembly and the International Court), specialized agencies (such as the World Bank and the World Meteorological Organization), and commissions (such as its regional economic commissions).
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the U.N. will provide some additional resources for studying the NGOs who have played such an active role in the life of the United Nations.
• U.N. Peacekeeping Missions provides additional resources on some of these operations. I’ve organized these by the name of the country for clarity, since some countries have been the site of several peacekeeping missions.