Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice: Building Peace after Mass Atrocities

Since the end of the Cold War peacekeeping has faced some dramatic changes, immense challenges and fierce criticisms. This book argues that one of the practical tasks that need to be included in twenty-first century peacekeeping is the involvement of peace enforcers in the arrest of war criminals indicted by international criminal tribunals. This volume has two objectives. Firstly, it attempts to deepen peacekeeping theory regarding the traditional holy trinity of peacekeeping: consent, impartiality and the use of force; transitional justice and enforcement of international humane law. Secondly, on the basis of an examination of current peacekeeping doctrines and SFOR's experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina and KFOR's experience in Kosovo it attempts to outline the mechanisms that need to be established in order to enable peace enforcers to effectively arrest war criminals in the areas where they are deployed. Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice will be of interest to students of peace operations, war crimes and humanitarian law, transitional justice and international relations and security studies in general.Lyck, Majbritt is the author of 'Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice: Building Peace after Mass Atrocities', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415444590 and ISBN 0415444594.