Perspectives on Peacekeeping and Atrocity Prevention

Introduction to the Boon: Evolving Challenges and Alternative Perspectives to Peacekeeping in Complex Security Environments.- Protecting Strangers: Reflections on a Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping Capacity.- Towards a Standing UN Force for Peacekeeping, by David Curran.- Norm Entrepreneurs Advocating the Responsibility to Protect, and Peacekeeping Reform Proposals.- Peacekeeping and the Rule of Law: Challenges Posed by Intervention Brigades and Other Coercive Measures in Support of the Protection of Civilians.- Addressing the Criminal Accountability of Peacekeepers.- Intersected and Complementary Obstacles and Opportunities in Peacekeeping Operations, Atrocity Crime Prevention, and Related Security Responsibilities.- The Evolution of China's Role in Peacekeeping and Atrocity Crime Prevention.- The Protection of Civilians in African Regional and Sub-regional Peace Operations.- Regional Implementation of Peacekeeping: Notes and Lessons from the Brazilian experience in the MINUSTAH.- Businesses and Investors as Stakeholders in Atrocity Crime Prevention.- Conclusion.- Appendix: Biographies of Editors and Authors.

David Curran specialises in peacekeeping, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. His research covers: the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers (with particular focus on the development of UN training programmes); the evolution of rapid-reaction peacekeeping and peacebuilding forces (such as the African Union standby brigades, EU battle groups; and concepts of specialized UN rapid reaction capabilities) and their potential to enhance cosmopolitan approaches to conflict resolution; evolution of Protection of Civilians' activities in UN peacekeeping operations; relationship between peacekeeping operations and the 'Responsibility to Protect'; the potential for peacekeeping operations to contribute to (or mitigate against) conflict resolution processes in situations of violent conflict. Dr. Robert Zuber is director of UN-based Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict and the Project for a UN Emergency Peace Service. He also serves as consultant, adviser or board member to a wide variety of non-profit and educational organizations, including Green Map System, Our Humanity in the Balance, the UNEarth media project and Paris--based FIACAT. Based in Harlem, New York and educated at Yale and Columbia Universities, he has written and spoken extensively on diverse human security issues and has organized seminars and conferences in over 30 countries on topics from atrocity crime prevention and the problem of illicit small arms to the participation of women in peace policies and processes.