Foreword by Ian Martin Acknowledgements Introduction Legal Framework, Initial Doctrinal Evolution and Thematic Classification of Operations Operations Contributing to Decolonization and Responding to Post-Independence Crisis Operations Deployed in Conflicts Arising from the Cold War and Its Aftermath Operations Responding to Intra-state Conflicts Operations Deployed in Conflicts due to Transition to Democracy from Authoritarian Rule Operations Deployed Post US-led Interventions Second Phase in the Evolution of Peace Operations Doctrine: 1992-2015 Use of Force: An Unresolved Issue of UN Peace Operations Integration of Thematic Areas in Peace Operations Human Rights Component in Operation: First Phase-1990-1998 Human Rights Component in Operations: Second Phase-Post 2000 Human Rights Component in Operations: Case Studies of Timor-Leste, Sudan and Libya Bibliography Index
Ravindran Daniel is an independent expert member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of people to self-determination. He is an expert in international human rights law, with more than 30 years of experience in working on human rights at local, regional and international levels. He specializes in conflict and post-conflict situations. He was the Director of Human Rights Divisions in East Timor, Libya and Sudan of the UN Peacekeeping Operations. He has held senior positions in the Cambodia and Uganda offices of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In the 1980s, he worked with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Geneva. He was the secretary of the UN International Enquiry Commission on East Timor. He has conducted numerous academic training and workshops on human rights in various parts of the world. He founded the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) and was a member of the launching committee that established the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). He lives in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, and is an avid gardener.