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Prostituting Peace: The Impact Of Sending State’S Legal Regimes On U.N. Peacekeeper Behavior And Suggestions To Protect The Populations Peacekeepers Guard, Alexandra R. Harrington

Alexandra R. Harrington

Abstract: Prostituting Peace: The Impact of Sending State’s Legal Regimes on U.N. Peacekeeper Behavior and Suggestions to Protect the Populations Peacekeepers Guard, Alexandra R. Harrington, Esq.

Prostitution has many meanings. It’s most obvious meaning is in the context of selling sexual relations for monetary or other gain. However, it is not only in this way that people can be prostituted and, certainly, it is possible to prostitute things other than people. Many nations and societies have outlawed the act of prostitution in its transactional sense. Prostitution of commonly held human values has also been theoretically outlawed within the international community, …

Explosive Road From Dublin: The Legal Flaws In The Convention To Ban Cluster Munitions And Recommendations For Their Cure., Alexandra R. Harrington

Alexandra R. Harrington

In a popular Irish folk song, the hero leaves his boyhood home in the Irish country

side and takes the “rocky road to Dublin” in order to sail to a new life in a new country. However hopeful the hero is throughout his journey, when he arrives at his destination he finds that it is not as hospitable as he had expected. Despite its light-hearted beat, this song is oddly prophetic for an analysis of the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions.

In May, 2008, the Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions (“Cluster Munitions Convention”) was adopted by a group of one-hundred …