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Peace And The Press: Media Rules During U.N. Peacekeeping Operations, Jennifer Lee
Peace And The Press: Media Rules During U.N. Peacekeeping Operations, Jennifer Lee
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In recent years, U.N. peacekeeping operations have become an increasing focus of international military action and media coverage. While the military and the media have maintained a precarious balance in the United States between the military's objective of operational success and the media's call for uncensored reporting, the evolution and growing importance of U.N. peacekeeping offers new considerations to this balance. This Note examines the ability of the United Nations to affect the balance between the military and the media through the implementation of U.N. media rules during peacekeeping operations. This Note begins by reviewing the history of media coverage …
The Law Of The Sea Conference: Dispute Settlement In Perspective, John K. Gamble, Jr.
The Law Of The Sea Conference: Dispute Settlement In Perspective, John K. Gamble, Jr.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On March 15, 1976, the Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference reconvened in New York City. The task of this Conference, drafting a new and comprehensive law of the sea treaty, is enormous. At the very least the new treaty will modify many of the traditional patterns for use and control of hydrospace. There is no doubt that coastal states will achieve the right to exercise control over all resources within 200 nautical miles of their coasts. If this contingency is not implemented by treaty, then it will be reached by unilateral claims to these zones. Agreeing on …
Peace-Keeping And Peace-Making--The Un In The Middle East, Robert D. Kamenshine
Peace-Keeping And Peace-Making--The Un In The Middle East, Robert D. Kamenshine
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A UN official, commenting on the designation of Swedish diplomat Gunnar Jarring as the Security Council's representative to work for a Middle East peace, observed that both Ralph Bunche and Lester B. Pearson had already received Nobel Prizes for bringing peace to this region. If anything is to be learned from the most recent Middle East conflict, it is that a cessation of hostilities cannot be equated with a peace; that a true peace involves the resolution of basic conflicts of interests.
Almost from its very inception, the United Nations has been deeply involved in Middle East problems. Just over …