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Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, 2020
The use of cyber operations during armed conflicts and the question of how international humanitarian law (IHL) applies to such operations have developed significantly over the past two decades.
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The use of cyber operations during armed conflicts and the question of how international humanitarian law (IHL) applies to such operations have developed significantly over the past two decades.
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2023
Featuring contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a comprehensive account of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It brings together a wide range of UCP practices and provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.
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Featuring contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a comprehensive account of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It brings together a wide range of UCP practices and provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.
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Civilian Self-Protection and Civilian Targeting in Armed Conflicts: Who Protects Civilians?
2016Studies have shown that civilians are often intentionally targeted in civil wars and that civilian protection efforts launched by the international community have not always been successful, if they occur at all. Civilians, therefore, have had to rely on themselves for protection in most conflicts.
Betcy Jose, Peace A. Medie
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Doing less with less? Peacekeeping retrenchment and the UN's protection of civilians agenda
, 2020The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative represents the latest in a series of efforts to make the UN’s peace and security architecture “fit for the future.” The Action for Peacekeeping initiative ...
Timothy Donais, Eric Tanguay
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2018
Particularly during its first four years, AMISOM had a distinctly ambiguous relationship with civilian protection issues. It was not until late May 2013, for example, that AMISOM adopted a more explicit and proactive approach to civilian protection involving the deliberate application of its resources to reduce civilian harm.
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Particularly during its first four years, AMISOM had a distinctly ambiguous relationship with civilian protection issues. It was not until late May 2013, for example, that AMISOM adopted a more explicit and proactive approach to civilian protection involving the deliberate application of its resources to reduce civilian harm.
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Resilience in Displacement and the Protection of Civilians in South Sudan
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2019The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was established in 2011. As violence erupted in 2013, the peacekeeping mission allowed tens of thousands of civilians into its bases, leading to the establishment of Protection of Civilians (POC) sites
J. Munive
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Twenty Years of the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations
Journal of International Peacekeeping, 2019The Protection of Civilians (PoC) has been part of United Nations (UN) peace operations for twenty years. Today, PoC is irrefutably a ‘centre of gravity’ for how UN peace operations see and portray themselves.
Charles T. Hunt, Shannon Zimmerman
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Environmental Protection as Civilian Protection
Abstract This chapter examines the protections afforded under international humanitarian law (IHL) to the natural environment owing to its civilian character. The natural environment enjoys the protection afforded to civilian objects, unless a distinct part of it qualifies as a military objective under IHL.Lakmini Seneviratne, Kosuke Onishi
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WPS and Protection of Civilians
2018Protection of civilians has become a core feature of UN peacekeeping. A normative shift in the 1990s led to new mandates and priorities in peacekeeping operations. This has occurred in parallel to the policy shift toward emphasizing the security of women.
Lisa Hultman, Angela Muvumba Sellström
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Unarmed Civilian Protection: Security or Humanitarian Aid?
2023This chapter explores the role of unarmed civilian protection (UCP) in ending, or vastly decreasing reliance on, war and armed policing for the protection of civilians and human rights. While UCP organizations have made great strides supporting civilians in conflict and helping people make their communities safer though nonviolent strategies, the ...
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