Conor Foley

UN Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law. While the UN acknowledges the relevance of international humanitarian law to its missions, this book argues that international human rights law regulations usually provide more appropriate guidance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416245
• ISBN-10: 1108416241
• Artikelnr.: 48534241

Autorenporträt

Conor Foley has worked on legal reform and protection issues for a variety of United Nations and non-governmental human rights and humanitarian organisations, including the UN Department of Peacekeeping UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN High Commission for Refugees, UN-Habitat, Amnesty International, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), International Rescue Committee, Oxfam and the Norwegian Refugee Council. He has worked in over twenty-five conflict and post-conflict zones including Aceh, Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgia, Indonesia, Kosovo, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi, Mozambique, Peru, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Tajikistan, Timor Leste, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. He is a Visiting Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and his previous books include The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War (2010), Protecting Brazilians against Torture (2013), Another System Is Possible: Reforming Brazilian Justice, (2012), Human Rights, Human Wrongs: The Alternative Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (1995), and Legion of the Rearguard: The IRA and the Modern Irish State (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Relationship between 'Protection' and
'Peacekeeping': 1. Laws and wars and rights and wrongs: the general
international legal framework relevant to protection; 2. The evolution and
conceptual development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians;
3. Competing conceptions: the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping
operations; Part II. The Applicable Legal Framework Governing the Use of
Force for Protective Purposes: 4. The 'protection provisions' of
international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law; 5. The UN's legal
authority and obligations to protect civilians; Part III. Protection of
Civilians Mandates in Four Contemporary Case-Study Missions: 6.
Peacekeeping or war-fighting: the UN missions in the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Côte d'Ivoire; 7. 'Acting with moral courage': the UN missions to
Darfur and South Sudan conclusions; Bibliography; Index.