Complicity and the Law of International Organiza – Responsibility for Human Rig…

Complicity and the Law of International OrganizationsResponsibility for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations in UN Peace Operations\nAuthor(s): Magdalena Pacholska\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781839101359, 978-1839101359\nSynopsis\nThis timely book examines the responsibility of international organizations for complicity in human rights and humanitarian law violations. It comprehensively addresses a lacuna in current scholarship through an analysis of the mandates and modus operandi of UN peace operations, offering workable normative solutions and striking a balance between the UN s duty not to contribute to international law violations and its need to discharge mandated tasks in a highly volatile environment. Building on existing scholarship on State responsibility for aid or assistance, this incisive book is the first to focus on how the complicity of international organizations .