Sex in Peace Operations

Informationen zum Autor Gabrielle Simm is a Visiting Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University. She has previously worked as a government lawyer advising on international law in the Australian Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and as a diplomat in Southeast Asia. She has also worked as a refugee lawyer in Melbourne. Klappentext This book critically re-evaluates the problem of sex between international personnel and local people and offers regulatory solutions to legal problems. Zusammenfassung Sex in Peace Operations critically re-evaluates the problem of UN peacekeepers! private military contractors and humanitarian NGO workers who engage in sex with local people. Of interest to scholars of international law! peace and conflict studies! gender and sexuality! and development! it takes a regulatory approach to international law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A feminist framework for regulating peace operations; 3. Law as regulation; 4. Above the law? Sex trafficking by private military contractors in Bosnia; 5. Aid for sex: humanitarian NGO workers in West Africa; 6. 'Zero compliance with zero tolerance': UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Gabrielle Simm, Gabrielle (University of New South Wales Simm, Simm Gabrielle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107536289
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53628-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, Gender studies, gender groups, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Public international law: humanitarian law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Peacekeeping operations, International Organisations & Institutions