Overview
- Breaks new ground in demanding legal consequences for peacekeepers committing sexual offences
- Argues for the ability for states to prevent and punish criminal conduct by their peacekeepers
- Draws on aspects of international law (including transitional justice), international relations, criminal law and peace and conflict studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security (TCCCS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Based on timely critical analysis, this book demonstrates the limitations states face in ensuring accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers – a factor which directly contributes to ongoing commission of and impunity for such offences. Calling for a rights-based, transnational law response to these crimes, this engaging and thought-provoking work will appeal to international practitioners, governments, UN policy-makers, and scholars of international, military and criminal law.
Reviews
“This valuable book offers a bracing perspective on the vexed issue of accountability of UN peacekeepers for sexualexportation and abuse. It pinpoints the weaknesses of the current system and argues persuasively for transnational regulation, with women’s human rights at its centre.” (Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University, Australia)
“Combining deft analysis of international and domestic jurisprudence with a sound understanding of peacekeeping practices in the field and the challenges confronting the global community, this important book sheds new light on the problem of responding to sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers. It offers careful and balanced analysis as well as a set of practical steps that could be taken to prevent abuse by holding perpetrators accountable. This book will be welcomed and must be read by both general readers and those that have grappled – thus far unsuccessfully – with this issue for years.” (Professor Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia; Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York, USA, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Melanie O'Brien is a Research Fellow in the TC Beirne School of Law and researcher in the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, The University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked for Anti-Slavery Australia and the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Criminalising Peacekeepers
Book Subtitle: Modernising National Approaches to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Authors: Melanie O'Brien
Series Title: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57729-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57728-9Published: 22 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86235-4Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57729-6Published: 23 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-4264
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4272
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 207
Topics: Human Rights and Crime , War Crimes, State Crimes, Crime Control and Security, Peace Studies