1st Edition

UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect

By Annie Herro Copyright 2015
168 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice. The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent UN service to improve UN peace operations as well as to... Read more

1. Introduction: an idea whose time has come? 2. The history of UNEPS 3. Normative and problem-solving ideas 4. An un-armed UNEPS 5. The use of force 6. The UN and regional organisations 7. Towards a pragmatic policy proposal 8. Conclusion: Moving beyond the UNEPS proposal?

Biography

Annie Herro is a lecturer at Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, and has a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies.