The UN, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Situations
Published in August 2005
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-1-929446-62-9 (ISBN)
Description
The United Nations is one of the largest providers of assistance in post-conflict situations in the world. This book considers the human rights standards applicable to the United Nations and applied by the United Nations in post-conflict situations, including East Timor, Kosovo and Afghanistan. It looks at legal principles, peace agreements, support of democracy, human rights protection, development and other forms of reconstruction with which the UN has become involved, including the grandly-named task of "state-building". It deals both with the obligation upon the UN to respect human rights in post-conflict situations, and the obligation upon the UN to ensure that human rights are respected by those in positions of power in post-conflict situations.
Written by an internationally renowned list of contributors, this book will be of vital use to anyone studying conflict analysis, international relations, international law and the role of the United Nations on the world stage.
Written by an internationally renowned list of contributors, this book will be of vital use to anyone studying conflict analysis, international relations, international law and the role of the United Nations on the world stage.
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Language
English
ISBN-13
978-1-929446-62-9 (9781929446629)
Persons
Nigel D. White is a Professor of International Organisations in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, and currently Head of the School. His publications include Keeping the Peace: The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, The UN System: Toward International Justice and The Law of International Organisations. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law.
Dirk Klaasen is a Research Fellow in the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham.
Dirk Klaasen is a Research Fellow in the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham.
Content
1. An emerging legal regime?
Nigel White and Dirk Klaasen
Part I: Legal principles
2. Human rights law and UN peace operations in post-conflict situations
Boris Kondoch
3. Reasonable Measures in unreasonable circumstances: a legal responsibility
framework for human rights violations in post-conflict territories under UN administration
John Cerone
4. UN accountability for human rights violations in post-conflict situations
Guglielmo Verdirame
Part II: Different models of protection
5. Managing for sustainable human rights protection: international missions in the
peace processes of Bosnia and Hercegovina and Gutemala
Milburn Line
6. The UN, security and human rights: achieving a winning balance
Michael Kelly
7. International territorial admininistration and human rights
Ralph Wilde
Part III: The politics of protection
8. Human rights and the 'empire of civil society'
Tony Evans
9. Human rights out of context (or, translating the Universal Declaration into Khmer)
Caroline Hughes
10. Multiculturalism and its discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: a critique of the
multiculturalist rights model
Vanessa Pupavac
Part IV: Peace agreements and justice
11. Peace agreements and human rights: implications for the UN
Christine Bell
12. Post-conflict accountability: a matter of judgment, practice or principle?
Robert Cryer
Part V: Specific situations
13. Searching for clarity: a case study of UNTAET's application of international human rights norms
Annemarie Devereux
14. Rights, rhetoric and reality: a snapshot from Afghanistan
Norah Niland
15. Effective human rights protection when the UN 'becomes the state': lessons from UNMIK
Marcus Brand
Part VI: Future protection
16. Future protection of human rights in post-conflict societies: the role of the UN
Michael O'Flaherty
17. Rhetoric and reality: post-conflict recovery and development - the UN and gender reform
Lori Handrahan
18. UN accountability for its human rights impact: implementation through participation
Karen Kenny
19. Towards a strategy for human rights protection in post-conflict situations
Nigel D. White
Nigel White and Dirk Klaasen
Part I: Legal principles
2. Human rights law and UN peace operations in post-conflict situations
Boris Kondoch
3. Reasonable Measures in unreasonable circumstances: a legal responsibility
framework for human rights violations in post-conflict territories under UN administration
John Cerone
4. UN accountability for human rights violations in post-conflict situations
Guglielmo Verdirame
Part II: Different models of protection
5. Managing for sustainable human rights protection: international missions in the
peace processes of Bosnia and Hercegovina and Gutemala
Milburn Line
6. The UN, security and human rights: achieving a winning balance
Michael Kelly
7. International territorial admininistration and human rights
Ralph Wilde
Part III: The politics of protection
8. Human rights and the 'empire of civil society'
Tony Evans
9. Human rights out of context (or, translating the Universal Declaration into Khmer)
Caroline Hughes
10. Multiculturalism and its discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: a critique of the
multiculturalist rights model
Vanessa Pupavac
Part IV: Peace agreements and justice
11. Peace agreements and human rights: implications for the UN
Christine Bell
12. Post-conflict accountability: a matter of judgment, practice or principle?
Robert Cryer
Part V: Specific situations
13. Searching for clarity: a case study of UNTAET's application of international human rights norms
Annemarie Devereux
14. Rights, rhetoric and reality: a snapshot from Afghanistan
Norah Niland
15. Effective human rights protection when the UN 'becomes the state': lessons from UNMIK
Marcus Brand
Part VI: Future protection
16. Future protection of human rights in post-conflict societies: the role of the UN
Michael O'Flaherty
17. Rhetoric and reality: post-conflict recovery and development - the UN and gender reform
Lori Handrahan
18. UN accountability for its human rights impact: implementation through participation
Karen Kenny
19. Towards a strategy for human rights protection in post-conflict situations
Nigel D. White