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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Civilian protection"”.
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By any other name? Rethinking the implications of mandate language in UN peace operations for civilian protection
… concerns the influence of mandate language on civilian protection in peace operations. Because peace operations do not exist in a legal vacuum, and must operate within the law, the first paper situates the 'Protection of Civilians' (POC) concept within the framework of international human …
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African Union Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection. An Evaluation of the EU Strategy for Africa and the G8/Africa Joint Plan.
… ¿responsibility to protect¿ vulnerable civilians threatened by gross violations of their human rights. And civilian protection is increasingly included in the mandates of peacekeeping missions. Within the context of contemporary complex, multidimensional peacekeeping (¿peace support¿), …
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Opposition groups as parties to internal armed conflicts and the concept of the R2P : to what extent opposition groups could play a role for the purpose of the protection of populations within the concept of the R2P
… could contribute to the objective of protecting civilian populations. The significance of this subject lies in the fact that although the primary objective behind the adoption of the R2P is to improve the protection provided for civilians within the context of internal armed conflicts, the …
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The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts
… variety of tasks. One of these tasks was the protection of civilians (POC). While much work has been done on the growth of the civilian protection agenda and the role that peacekeepers play in protecting civilians during armed conflict, these works have been descriptive narratives that lack …
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Framing Power: Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas
… dissertation analyses military intervention and civilian protection; in the migration issue area the analysis focuses on the treatment of migrants; and in the issue area of human rights, the dissertation analyses the rights of sexual minorities. This thesis argues that an important element in the …
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The contribution of female military peacekeepers towards operational effectiveness in United Nations Organization Stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
… enhance operational effectiveness in the protection of civilians. Furthermore, UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), with its four pillars (participation, protection, prevention, and relief and recovery), guides the significant contributions of female peacekeepers through …