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Title: Siobhan Wills, Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Peacekeepers.
Author : McGill Law Journal
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 254 KB

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Siobhan Wills, Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Peacekeepers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp xxi, 296. ISBN 9780-19-953387-9. The last two decades have witnessed the highest ever involvement of United Nations' blue helmets in peacekeeping missions throughout the world. These international missions, as Siobhan Wills observes, consist of different types of peace and enforcement operations, including conflict prevention, peacemaking, peace enforcement, peace building, and humanitarian operations. (1) The engagement of UN troops in civilian protection operations in the world's war-torn areas has resulted in several complications concerning their mandates to protect civilians from harm on the one hand, and their entanglement in human rights violations on the other. (2)