The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Author: Joachim Koops
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1031
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019150954X

The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. Since the late 1940s, but particularly since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping has been a central part of the core activities of the United Nations and a major process in global security governance and the management of international relations in general. The volume will present a chronological analysis, designed to provide a comprehensive perspective that highlights the evolution of UN peacekeeping and offers a detailed picture of how the decisions of UN bureaucrats and national governments on the set-up and design of particular UN missions were, and remain, influenced by the impact of preceding operations. The volume will bring together leading scholars and senior practitioners in order to provide overviews and analyses of all 65 peacekeeping operations that have been carried out by the United Nations since 1948. As with all Oxford Handbooks, the volume will be agenda-setting in importance, providing the authoritative point of reference for all those working throughout international relations and beyond.

The Human Rights Field Operation

The Human Rights Field Operation
Author: Professor Michael O'Flaherty
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2013-01-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1409493458

This volume assesses the development of human rights field operations of the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations. It makes a substantial contribution to the debate and understanding with regard to the sector's underlying doctrine. The book, unprecedented in its scope, addresses the range of aspects of the nature, role and activities of field operations. It draws together the reflections of academics, policy makers and field practitioners. Its analysis is located within the context of applicable normative and ethical frameworks, assessment of former and current practice and examination of complementary and analogous experiences. The book will be an essential resource for all those actively involved in human rights field work as well as for policy makers and academics and students involved in human rights research.

United Nations Documents Index

United Nations Documents Index
Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2004-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789211009521

The United Nations Documents Index provides information on documents and publications issued by United Nations offices worldwide. The information is presented in nine sections covering the areas of documents and publications; official records; sales publications; United Nations maps included in UN documents; United Nations sheet maps; United Nations document series symbols; author index; title index; and subject index. The Index is a two-volume set.

Enabling Peace in Guatemala

Enabling Peace in Guatemala
Author: William Stanley
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781588266569

In this book, William Stanley tells the absorbing story of the UN peace operation in Guatemala's ten-year endeavour (1994-2004) to build conditions that would sustain a lasting peace in the country.

The United Nations System

The United Nations System
Author: Chadwick F. Alger Professor Emeritus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2005-11-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1851098062

From the beginnings of the Cold War to efforts to control Saddam Hussein's weapons program, this indispensable guide to the history and workings of the UN system shows how this widely misunderstood organization has helped to make the world a safer place and what its future prospects are likely to be. Rising from the ashes of World War II, the UN's birth was announced on October 24, 1945. Its military arm began in 1948 with the deployment of just 36 soldiers, tasked with supervising a fragile cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since then it has undertaken more than 50 peacekeeping missions and concluded 500 multilateral conventions on human rights, arms control, environment, terrorism, and many other subjects. The United Nations System examines the continuing controversy that surrounds this organization. Whereas conservatives accuse the UN of wavering in the face of gross violations of its own resolutions by Saddam Hussein, many liberals have lambasted it for failing to take decisive action against genocide in the Balkans and in Rwanda. Highly readable and packed with useful facts and illustrations, this book is essential reading for those who wish to make up their own minds.

Civil Wars

Civil Wars
Author: Marie Olson Lounsbery
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802096722

"Clearly the best single volume treatment of civil war now available. This is an admirable synthesis and analysis of theoretical, historical, statistical, and case study literatures. Useful as a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level." - Roy Licklider, Rutgers University

United Nations Peacekeeping

United Nations Peacekeeping
Author: Marjorie Ann Browne
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1437939252

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A major issue facing the U.N., the U.S., and the 111th Congress is the extent to which the U.N. has the capacity to restore or keep the peace in the changing world environment. Contents of this report: (1) Most Recent Developments; (2) Intro.; (3) Current Funding Situation; (4) Basic Info.: U.S. Provision of Personnel; A Peacekeeping Response to International Humanitarian Distress; Monitoring Elections; U.S. Financing for U.N. Peacekeeping; (5) U.N. Proposals for Strengthening Peacekeeping: Agenda for Peace (1992); Brahimi Panel Report (2000); Prince Zeid Report (2005); Reorg. and Restructuring (2007); (6) The U.S. and Peacekeeping Proposals; (7) Congress and U.N. Peacekeeping: 1991-2006. Charts and tables.

Short of the Goal

Short of the Goal
Author: Nancy Birdsall
Publisher: CGD Books
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933286059

'Short of the Goal' analyses US policy toward poorly performing states that are ineligible for new U.S. foreign assistance programs and examines the role of specific policy instruments in building state capacity to prevent deterioration and collapse.

Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations

Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Author: Aminul Islam
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2024-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1040097782

This book discusses the legal responsibility of UN peacekeepers for the protection of civilians under international legal regimes, particularly international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international refugee law, and occupation law. It considers both negative and positive obligations, that is, a duty to respect or not violate a particular right directly and a duty to take positive action to secure or protect a particular right, respectively. In addition, it describes the standards and methods, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, by which actors in UN peacekeeping operations, including the UN, troop contributing countries, and individual peacekeepers, can be held accountable for third-party claims and allegations of criminal misconduct against UN peacekeepers for violations of responsibility in peacekeeping operations. The work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Relations.