1st Edition
Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations Legal Responsibility and Accountability
Part I: Background and Context; 1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualising UN Peacekeeping, Protection of Civilians, Legal Responsibility, and Accountability; Part II: Applicable International Legal Regimes And Responsibilities; 3. Protection of Civilians under International Human Rights Law; 4. Protection of Civilians under International Humanitarian Law and Occupation Law; 5. Protection of Civilians under International Refugee Law; Part III: Accountability, Remedies, And Means Of Redress; 6. Accountability of the United Nations and Troop Contributing Countries; 7. Accountability of Individual UN Peacekeepers; 8. Accountability Implementation Mechanisms: Problems and Prospects; Part IV: Conclusions; 9. Conclusions;
Biography
Aminul Islam is an Additional District and Sessions Judge in Bangladesh. He is currently the Deputy Secretary of the Law and Justice Division in the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He has more than two decades of experience as a judge, lawyer, journalist, and educator.
'Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Legal Responsibility and Accountability sheds light on a critically important dimension of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations, offering valuable insights into the accountability gap and proposing bold but sensible remedies for addressing that gap.'
Professor Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, UK
'This book powerfully demonstrates that the UN has both negative and positive obligations under international law to protect civilians, especially when it has deployed peacekeepers to protect them. It also shows that the UN has a long way to go to internalise those obligations and provide proper accountability for their breach.'
Professor Nigel D. White, University of Nottingham, UK
