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In United Nations Peace Operations and Human Rights: Normativity and Compliance Sylvia Maus offers a comprehensive account of the human rights obligations of United Nations peace operations with a dual focus on the applicability and the content of UN peace operations' human rights obligations. Selected case studies show a triad of human rights gaps: a protection gap, an accountability gap and a remedy gap. Going further than purely legal studies on the subject, Maus makes use of international relations theory and addresses considerations of reputation and legitimacy as reasons for (non-)compliance with human rights by the UN. Based on this interdisciplinary approach, she convincingly proposes ways for enhancing human rights compliance in UN peace operations.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Human Rights in UN Peace Operations: the Institutional Perspective -- i United Nations Peace Operations -- 1 Definition, Legal Basis and Status -- 2 A (Short) History of Peace Operations -- 3 Peacekeeping - Peacebuilding - Peace Enforcement -- 4 Relevant Actors Relating to Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations -- ii The Relationship between Human Rights and Peace -- 1 The Point of Departure: Human Rights and Peace as Two Distinct Fields -- 2 An Ever-Closer Union: Growing Interrelatedness between Human Rights and Peace -- a Grave Violations of Human Rights as a Threat to Peace and Security -- b Paradigm Shift in the Perception of Security and the Concept of Human Security -- c Security and Human Rights in the Context of the Responsibility to Protect -- d Peace as a Human Right -- e Result: Human Rights and Peace as Intrinsically Linked Concepts -- iii Human Rights in UN Peacekeeping Operations -- 1 Security Council: Strategic Framework for Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations -- a Human Rights in Mission Mandates -- b Shortcomings in Mandate Drafting -- c Shortcomings with Respect to Human Rights in Mandates -- d Result -- 2 Human Rights in Secretary-General Reports on Peace Operations: Doctrine -- a An Agenda for Peace and Supplement to an Agenda for Peace -- b Renewing the United Nations: Integrated Missions -- c The Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (Brahimi Report) -- d In Larger Freedom -- e Due Diligence, Human Rights Screening and Human Rights Up Front -- f hippo Report and Uniting Our Strengths for Peace -- g Action for Peacekeeping (A4P): Our Core Agenda for Peacekeeping -- h Result: an Ever-Stronger Role of Human Rights.

"Obwohl die 'strategische Partnerschaft' zwischen der EU und Lateinamerika bisher über gute Absichten nicht hinausgekommen ist, bietet gerade Lateinamerika vielversprechende Ansatzpunkte für eine globale Partnerschaft. Dies wird hauptsächlich durch eine starke Werte- und Interessenkongruenz, vor allem in Bereichen wie Multilateralismus, Nichtintervention, Umweltschutz und der Nichtverbreitung von Massenvernichtungswaffen deutlich. Um eine enge Kooperation verwirklichen zu können, müssen vor allem drei Weg seitens der Europäischen Union eingeschlagen werden, die den Bedürfnissen der unterschiedlichen Länder des Kontinents Rechnung tragen: Erstens ist die Stärkung der politischen Stabilität der weniger entwickelten und innenpolitisch kaum gefestigten Staaten notwendig. Zweitens ist die Intensivierung der Beziehungen zu den stärker entwickelten Ländern am ehesten durch eine weiter reichende wirtschaftliche Verknüpfung möglich. Letztlich ist die angestrebte enge Partnerschaft in internationalen Fragen nur dann möglich, wenn die Länder Lateinamerikas mit einer Stimme sprechen würden, vor allem bei möglichen Abstimmungskoalitionen in internationalen Formen. Dazu ist eine stärkere regionale Integration dieser Länder von zentraler Bedeutung und entsprechend zu unterstützen." (Autorenreferat)

This volume takes a fresh look at climate change as a threat to peace and its impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity. It proceeds under the assumption that the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. As innovative feature, the interdisciplinary nexus between cultural heritage and peace is explicitly taken account of. Accordingly, corresponding threats on climate change and conflict on the one hand, and protection of cultural property and climate change on the other, are pulled together into one conceptual triangle. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts tends to become more and more recognized, the crucial role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of building and securing of sustainable peace has so far been largely underestimated.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Human Rights in UN Peace Operations: the Institutional Perspective -- i United Nations Peace Operations -- 1 Definition, Legal Basis and Status -- 2 A (Short) History of Peace Operations -- 3 Peacekeeping - Peacebuilding - Peace Enforcement -- 4 Relevant Actors Relating to Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations -- ii The Relationship between Human Rights and Peace -- 1 The Point of Departure: Human Rights and Peace as Two Distinct Fields -- 2 An Ever-Closer Union: Growing Interrelatedness between Human Rights and Peace -- a Grave Violations of Human Rights as a Threat to Peace and Security -- b Paradigm Shift in the Perception of Security and the Concept of Human Security -- c Security and Human Rights in the Context of the Responsibility to Protect -- d Peace as a Human Right -- e Result: Human Rights and Peace as Intrinsically Linked Concepts -- iii Human Rights in UN Peacekeeping Operations -- 1 Security Council: Strategic Framework for Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations -- a Human Rights in Mission Mandates -- b Shortcomings in Mandate Drafting -- c Shortcomings with Respect to Human Rights in Mandates -- d Result -- 2 Human Rights in Secretary-General Reports on Peace Operations: Doctrine -- a An Agenda for Peace and Supplement to an Agenda for Peace -- b Renewing the United Nations: Integrated Missions -- c The Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (Brahimi Report) -- d In Larger Freedom -- e Due Diligence, Human Rights Screening and Human Rights Up Front -- f hippo Report and Uniting Our Strengths for Peace -- g Action for Peacekeeping (A4P): Our Core Agenda for Peacekeeping -- h Result: an Ever-Stronger Role of Human Rights.