Protecting Civilians

• Highly topical analysis of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the context of occupation law and peace support
• Interdisciplinary analysis of a difficult issue, cutting across international law, international relations, the rules of armed conflict, and the Geneva Conventions
• Offers a completely up to date account of key military operations both prior to the responsibility to protect policy, and after its adoption, including the most recent MONUC and AMIS/UNMIS operations

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of Public International Law; International Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law; Armed Conflict and Peace Studies; UN & UN Agencies; and International Relations

Siobhán Wills, College Lecturer at University College Cork

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Introduction
I: Historical Review of Civilian Protection by UN Peacekeepers
1: Introduction
2: The Early Development of Peacekeeping
3: Civilian Protection in UN Peacekeeping Operations During the Cold War
6: Civilian Protection in UN Peacekeeping Missions Since 1999
7: Developments in Military Doctrine
8: Conclusion
II: The Extent to Which Peacekeeping and other Multi-national Forces have a General 'Responsibility to Protect' under International Humanitarian Law
1: Introduction
4: Conclusion
III: The Extent to Which Peacekeeping and other Multi-national Forces have a general 'Responsibility to Protect' under International Human Rights Law
1: Introduction
2: The Applicability of Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict
4: The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
5: Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
6: Conclusion
IV: The Applicability of Occupation Law to Peacekeeping and other Multi-national Operation
1: Introduction
2: The Laws of Occupation
3: The Laws of Occupation and UN Military Operations
4: The Extent to which the Laws of Occupation were Applicable to Somalia
5: The Applicability of the Laws of Occupation to Iraq
6: The Laws of Occupation and UN-run Administrations
7: Overall Assessment of the Laws of Occupation to UN Administrations
8: Conclusion
V: Implications for Peacekeepers and Other Multi-national Forces
1: Introduction
2: Developments in Response to Egregious Violations of Human Rights in the 1990s
3: The Implications of the Collective Responsibility to Protect
4: Occupation and Situations Akin to Occupation
5: Peacekeepers' General Responsibility to Protect
6: Sexual Violence
7: Conclusion
VI: Conclusion