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This book proposes a normative framework specifically designed for the complex and legally uncertain time period between armed conflicts and peace. As such, it contributes both to the furthering of a jus post bellum framework, and to enhanced legal clarity in complex and legally uncertain environments.
List of contents
Section I: Introduction1. Introduction
Section II: Setting the scene: A brief history, and international legal foundations of United Nations peace operations2. A brief historical account of security, protection, and United Nations peace operations
3. International law and the legal foundations of peace operations
4. Applicability of international law to peace operations
Section III: Protection of civilians in contemporary context: Policy, guidelines, and mandates on protection5. United Nations policy and guidance on protection
6. Security Council mandates to protect civilians
Section IV: An introduction to the law of protection under jus post bellum7. International Human Rights Law under jus post bellum
8. International Humanitarian Law under jus post bellum
9. Identification and classification of armed conflicts
Section V: The protective nature and function of law: Towards a normative framework for effective, purposive and sustainable protection under jus post bellum10. The protective nature and function of the law enforcement paradigm under International Human Rights Law
11. Protective nature and function of the paradigm of conduct of hostilities under International Humanitarian Law
Section VI: A protection regime jus post bellum: The law of occupation, the law of non-international armed conflicts and an emergency law regime under jus post bellum 12. Protection in the law of occupation
13. Protection in non-international armed conflicts
14. An emergency law regime under jus post bellum- a missing link to peace?
15. Identifying a dividing line between conduct of hostilities and law enforcement under jus post bellum
Section VII: Conclusion- a normative framework for protection under jus post bellum 16. A normative framework for effective, purposive and sustainable protection of civilians jus post bellum
About the author
Carina Lamont is as a lecturer and Director of Studies at the Swedish Defence University. She has more than 30 years' experience in the security and peace and conflict fields, both as an academic and as a practitioner at field, operational and strategic levels of conflict and post-conflict management.
Summary
This book proposes a normative framework specifically designed for the complex and legally uncertain time period between armed conflicts and peace. As such, it contributes both to the furthering of a jus post bellum framework, and to enhanced legal clarity in complex and legally uncertain environments.
