Redefining UN Peacekeeping-Law and Revival of the Trusteeship Council

ISBN-13: 9783659394508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str.

Kirthi Jayakumar

Opis

The United Nations is the largest global organization that deals with Peacekeeping in International War Zones. Relying on a global task force that comprises troops of member countries made available at the behest of the UN's requirements, and falling back on the resolutions of the Security Council, the extant system is fraught with inconsistencies. There are no legal provisions or overarching legislative instruments to govern peacekeeping operations - which in turn makes the entire system vulnerable to faults. Consequently, many troops have been accused of being involved in unscrupulous practices, while the system itself lacks any monitoring capacity to evaluate the progress of the missions. This book makes the case for the development of an overarching legal instrument to govern peacekeeping, and for the revival of the Trusteeship Council to manage peacekeeping operations instead of the Security Council.

O autorze

Kirthi Jayakumar is a lawyer, journalist, artist, author and a peace and conflict researcher from Chennai, India. She graduated from the School of Excellence in Law, India, with a concentration in Public International Law, and from UPeace, Costa Rica, with a Masters' degree in Sustainable Peace in a Contemporary World.