UN Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians: Saving Succeeding Generations - Brossura

This book explores the relationship between the development of UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians under international law. While the UN acknowledges the relevance of international humanitarian law to its missions, this book argues that international human rights law regulations usually provide more appropriate guidance.

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).