Herndl, Kurt Keywords: United Nations | Security Council | Mots clefs: Nations Unies | Conseil de sécurité | ABSTRACT Kurt Herndl, UN Deputy Secretary-General for Human Rights, intends to comment in his course on the role, functions, and procedures of the UN Security Council in the light of his practice, from an essentially pragmatic point of view and taking into account the most recent developments. After some reflections on the collective security system, the author studies the Security Council as a collective b…