Overview
- Provides a current account of UN’s re-thinking its Peacekeeping Operations and Protection of Civilian mandates
- Based on extensive interviews with senior UN officials at the headquarters and in the field
- Written from author’s extensive personal experience working in the field
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
The book provides an up to date and authoritative account of how the UN is re[1]thinking its obligations to protect civilians during conflicts. Based on hundreds of interviews with senior UN officials and humanitarian protection staff in headquarters and in the field and a review of the UN´s ´grey literature´. It also draws on the author´s own experience of working on human rights and protection in some of the world´s most violent conflicts. It is written not about what the UN ought to do – or how it could have behaved differently in an abstract or theoretically ideal world – but what the UN is actually doing to fulfil the fundamental purposes set forth in its Charter.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Conor Foley teaches at the PontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and works as a consultant on legal reform, human rights, and humanitarian protection in conflict zones. His previous books include UN Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians, saving succeeding generations (2017) The Thin Blue Line, how humanitarianism went to war (2008) and In Spite of You: Bolsonaro and the new Brazilian resistance (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Protection Paradox
Book Subtitle: How the UN Can Get Better at Saving Civilian Lives
Authors: Conor Foley
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27427-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27426-8Published: 14 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27429-9Published: 15 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27427-5Published: 13 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations