Human rights law and peacekeeping operations
(2011)
Book Chapter
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The impact of armed conflict on sustainable development: A holistic approach (2010)
Book Chapter
While a more traditional approach to international law and armed conflict focuses on the use of force and international humanitarian law, this book incorporates other international legal regimes such as human rights law, international private law, in... Read More about The impact of armed conflict on sustainable development: A holistic approach.
Binding the United Nations to human rights norms by way of the laws of treaties (2010)
Journal Article
There is no doubt that the United Nations has on various occasions violated human rights norms. Yet, it is unclear what the international legal source of its obligations to abide by human rights law is. This Article examines whether it is possible to... Read More about Binding the United Nations to human rights norms by way of the laws of treaties.
Rethinking the application of the principle of distinction (2010)
Book Chapter
The ‘war on terror’ and the principle of distinction in international humanitarian law (2010)
Journal Article
New security threats, which have surfaced in the past few years, are seriously jeopardizing the relevance and implementation of international humanitarian law. This paper investigates the impact of the war on terror on the principle of distinction in... Read More about The ‘war on terror’ and the principle of distinction in international humanitarian law.
International law and armed conflict: challenges in the 21st century (2010)
Book
While a more traditional approach to international law and armed conflict focuses on the use of force and international humanitarian law, this book incorporates other international legal regimes such as human rights law, international private law, in... Read More about International law and armed conflict: challenges in the 21st century.
The responsibility to protect: An empty concept for Darfur? (2009)
Book Chapter
Girl Soldiers and Armed Conflict in Africa (2008)
Book Chapter
Africa is at the epicentre of the child soldier phenomenon. Armed groups and forces using children cover the continent. In fact, children have been drawn into (whether through forced measures or ‘voluntarily’) nearly every one of its myriad wars. How... Read More about Girl Soldiers and Armed Conflict in Africa.
International humanitarian law and human rights law: towards a new merger in international law (2008)
Book
The book addresses the current issue of the applicability and application of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in times of armed conflict. Scholars chronologically argued that only international humanitarian law was ap... Read More about International humanitarian law and human rights law: towards a new merger in international law.
The dissonance between the United Nations zero-tolerance policy and the criminalisation of sexual offences on the international level (2007)
Journal Article
As a growing number of stories unravelled the involvement of United Nations peacekeepers in human trafficking and sexual exploitation cases, the United Nations adopted in 2003 and implemented a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual encounters between... Read More about The dissonance between the United Nations zero-tolerance policy and the criminalisation of sexual offences on the international level.
You are the weakest link and we will help you! The comprehensive strategy of the United Nations to fight terrorism (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General published the report of the high-level panel of experts on threats, challenges and change that projected a comprehensive strategy to fight various types of scourges that afflict humankind and notably terr... Read More about You are the weakest link and we will help you! The comprehensive strategy of the United Nations to fight terrorism.
The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide (2006)
Journal Article
The crisis in Darfur (Sudan), which sparked in February 2003, only caught the United Nations' attention in Spring 2004. Questions emerged as to whether the conflict between the rebels and the government was simply insurgency warfare or, in fact, conc... Read More about The report of The International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: The question of genocide.
The World after September 11: Has it really changed? (2005)
Journal Article
This review essay aims to assess whether international law has actually changed significantly since 9/11, or whether there is just an impression of change conveyed by books and articles published shortly after the events. Most books on terrorism star... Read More about The World after September 11: Has it really changed?.