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Administration Of Territories By The United Nations: Is There Room For International Humanitarian Law?, Steven R. Ratner
Administration Of Territories By The United Nations: Is There Room For International Humanitarian Law?, Steven R. Ratner
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The fundamental starting point of this conference is that peace operations represent a challenge to the implementation of international humanitarian law (IHL) for the simple reason that IHL was developed for states conducting hostile military operations against other states or non state actors.
Administration of territories represents one subset of peace operations – continuation of second-generation peacekeeping (PK) where parties, typically prodded by outsiders, formally delegate to the United Nations (UN) authority for the implementation of a peace agreement – though it has also been extended to situations where final status and outcome are not sure, as with East Timor …