Thoughts on the UN.

Half way through my second day as a youth NGO representative at the UN commision for Social Development (cSocD), and my sleep deprived thoughts are mixed.
1. Great to be in the UN and to superficially see how a comission runs.
2. Yesterday, I had thoughts about doing a masters in IR or peacekeeping. But now, I wonder how much actually gets done through these diplomatic processes. Policies are created and reviewed over smiles and bottles of wine and coffee and often behind closed doors.
I have seen little anazlysis about the causes of the problems that resolutions address, and I have hardly heard anything concrete about implimintation and follow up. Maybe the former two remain jobs for sociologists and analysists, and the latter a work ground level government workers. Are these policies necissary if nations openly ignore them? Why does the UN continue to follow these narrow formalities if they do not do anything? For self-importance? Is the self-importance an integral part of a nation, i.e. to inspire nationalism in the people?
Half way through my second day as a youth NGO representative at the UN commision for Social Development (cSocD), and my sleep deprived thoughts maybe remain uninformed. I hope that in the days to come, familiarity will make process clearer to me, and the formalities and redundant speeches will reveal their meaning.