Regulating the Use of Force by United Nations Peace Support Operations: Balancing Promises and Outcomes

ISBN-13: 9780367549381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Charuka Ekanayake

Opis

This book explores two broad questions: why the contemporary legal framework relevant to the regulation of force during armed conflict cannot close the gaps between the promises made by the UN and the outcomes they secure in relation to their use of force, and how the ‘Unified Use of Force Rule’ achieves this.

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  1. Introduction  2. United Nations Peace Support Operations – Institutional Frameworks, Command and Control Structures, and Attribution of Conduct  3. The Resort to and Use of Force by the UN: The Legal and the Moral  4. A Normative Framework for UN Uses of Force: The Applicability of the Candidate Regimes  5. Targeting Under International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law  6. Resolving Conflicts, Identifying Regulatory Standards and Closing Gaps Between Promises and Outcomes  7. Conclusion  Appendices  Bibliography

O autorze

Charuka Ekanayake (LLB (Hons) London, LLM (Colombo), LLM (UNITO/UNICRI), PhD (Griffith)) is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University, Australia. He has functioned as a Research Assistant at the Law Futures Centre, and the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law of the same University. He is a legal practitioner and holds practicing licenses in Sri Lanka and New South Wales, Australia.