Conor Foley

Un Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781108402750
• ISBN-10: 1108402755
• Artikelnr.: 54644706

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.