UN Peace Operations: Evolution of Doctrine, Practice and Integration of Human Rights Issues

UN Peace Operations: Evolution of Doctrine, Practice and Integration of Human Rights Issues examines the UN Charter and other associated documents that laid the foundations for peace operations, discussing the evolution of peacekeeping doctrine in the pre- and post-Cold War years. It reviews the incorporation of new thematic areas in peace operations and studies the human rights components in them.

The book examines UN’s response to global peace and security issues in the last 70 years and discusses the national, regional and global contexts in which the peace operations were deployed. Operations of importance are analysed by providing background to the conflicts and discussing the challenges faced. The book includes insights from the author’s first-hand experiences in Timor-Leste (East Timor), Libya and Sudan and offers policy recommendations. It would be of interest to scholars of politics, international relations, law, sociology, modern history and, especially, peace and conflict studies.

Ravindran Daniel is an independent expert member of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of people to self-determination. He is an expert in international human rights law, with more than 30 years of experience in working on human rights at local, regional and international levels. He specializes in conflict and post-conflict situations. He was the Director of Human Rights Divisions in East Timor, Libya and Sudan of the UN Peacekeeping Operations. He has held senior positions in the Cambodia and Uganda offices of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In the 1980s, he worked with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Geneva. He was the secretary of the UN International Enquiry Commission on East Timor. He has conducted numerous academic training and workshops on human rights in various parts of the world. He founded the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia) and was a member of the launching committee that established the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). He lives in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, and is an avid gardener.