Achieving peace or protecting human rights? : conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement
Author: Gro Nystuen
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004146532
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The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers
Author: Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-12
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1107017076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Develops a coherent and realistic legal framework which strengthens the human rights protection and the accountability mechanisms in peace operations.
Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies
Author: Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1509923446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of past violence to articulate their grievance, and by encouraging the state to respond to and provide them with a meaningful remedy. This usually happens either through a process of adjudication, whereby human rights can offer guidance to the judiciary as to the best way to address such grievances, or through the passing and implementation of human rights laws and policies that seek to promote peace. However, this positive relationship between human rights and peace is both qualified and context specific. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of four case studies, the book identifies the conditions that can support the effective use of human rights as peacebuilding tools. Developing these, the book recommends a series of strategies that peacebuilders should adopt and rely on.
Essays in Honour of Göran Melander
Author: Jonas Grimheden
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9004151818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume illustrates the complex relationship between dissemination of human rights standards and their application in human rights law, and thus serves as a tribute to Melander's belief in and commitment to the dynamics of education in human rights law.
The Influence of American Theories of Judicial Review on Nordic Constitutional Law
Author: Ragnhildur Helgadóttir
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9004150021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines the influence of American law and theories of judicial review on the development, practice and theorization of judicial review in Norway, Denmark, and Iceland from the 19th century to the present. The study describes how Nordic scholars in the late 19th century rationalized judicial review based on American theory and how American law influenced both their views of the institution and their way of thinking about substantive constitutional rights. These views in turn influenced Nordic jurisprudence for decades.
State Structure and
The Responsibility to Protect
Author: Dan Kuwali
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9004191712
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The International Community and Statebuilding
Author: Patrice McMahon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1136449418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty years, statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans, to Iraq, to Afghanistan, it has become widely accepted that statebuilding—defined as the development of transparent and accountable political institutions, stable and sustainable economic structures, professional public administrations, and civilian-controlled security services—is essential to the long-term stability of post-conflict settlements. The International Community and Statebuilding brings together senior-level policymakers and academics in order to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. Filling an important gap in the existing body of work on this topic, the contributors explore how international state builders have attempted to negotiate the intersections of multilateralism, competing strategic priorities and agendas, organizational complexity, and domestic politics. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, and International Relations in general.
Against Orthodoxy
Author: Trevor W. Harrison
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-08-31
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0774820969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favour among theorists as an explanatory factor in history, as Marxists and liberals looked to class and individualism as the driving forces of change. The resurgence of nationalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, called for a reconsideration of nationalism. Against Orthodoxy uses case studies from around the world to critically evaluate more than a quarter-century of scholarship. The authors argue that theories of nationalism have benefitted from fresh insights, but have also ossified into a new set of orthodoxies: some scholars characterize nationalism as an outgrowth of modernity, others view it as a European export, and still others see it as the brainchild of intellectuals. The theoretically informed and empirically grounded studies in this volume challenge these orthodoxies and offer new ways to think about nationalism. Collectively, these essays show that nationalism is not a singular phenomenon but rather a generative force reflecting complex historical, political, and cultural arrangements that defy simplistic explanations.
Human Rights and U.N. Peace Operations
Author: B. G. Ramcharan
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 900420296X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique book, one of the first of its kind, discusses how human rights actually featured in UN peace operations in the deadly conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1996. It is based on original materials in the possession of the author, who was Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslava from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Director of the Office of the UN Special Representative in charge of all peacemaking, peacekeeping, and humanitarian operations in the region. The book brings out the strategic centrality of human rights in the wide-ranging humanitarian operations. It shows how the peacekeepers built in a human rights dimension for the first time in the history of UN peacekeeping. And it shows how the peace negotiators sought to build their peace proposals on the foundations of human rights. It shows the peacemakers advocating justice for the victims while proceeding with their negotiating efforts. The great value of this book is that the author, who was personally involved in all of the activities he writes about, shows how human rights were instilled in practice in UN peace operations over a period of some four years and it also reveals, for the first time, some innovative ideas advanced that might be helpful in future peace operations.
