UN Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians Saving Succeeding Generations

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 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 -- Introduction -- Historical Overview -- 'Humanitarian Interventions' and the UN Charter -- The 'Protection Provisions' of the UN Charter -- A Responsibility to Protect? -- R2P, POC and 'Humanitarian Interventions' -- Conclusions -- 2 The Evolution and Conceptual Development of UN Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians -- Introduction -- The First Phase of Peacekeeping -- The 'Core Principles' of UN Peacekeeping and Their Evolution -- The Challenges of the 1990s -- Chapter VII and Humanitarian Crises -- Humanitarian Interventionism -- Kosovo and East Timor -- Conclusions -- 3 Competing Conceptions: The Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations -- Introduction -- The First Protection of Civilians Mandate -- Protection and the 'Third Phase' of UN Peacekeeping -- POC's Normative Significance -- POC and 'Rights-Based' Protection -- The Right of Humanitarian Access -- Rules of Engagement, IHL and International Human Rights Law -- Conclusions -- Part II The Applicable Legal Framework Governing the Use of Force for Protective Purposes -- 4 Relevant Provisions of International Humanitarian, Human Rights and Refugee Law -- Introduction -- Relevant Provisions of IHL -- Relevant Provisions of International Human Rights Law -- The Inter-Relationship between International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law -- Extraterritorial Application of International Human Rights Law -- Refugee Law, Human Rights and Internal Displacement -- Conclusions -- 5 The UN's Legal Authority and Obligations to Protect Civilians