Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Centralisation, Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping
11 Dec 2016
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3388e lecture 4: human rights and international law. When democratic gov"t began to replace communist dictatorships suddenly we saw a flourishing of human rights. Brought an increased awareness of civil and political rights. At this time the international community was not ready to respond to conflicts against human rights. Since the cold world ended there have been fewer conflicts altogether. Progress can be attributed to conflict prevention, peace keeping and peacebuilding by the un and the international community. The un does not mention peace keeping - simply says that the un is allowed to take such provisional measures as it deems necessary. During the cold war the council was unable to conduct any peacekeeping because states held the power to veto such provisional measures. Peace-keepers were meant to be neutral, position themselves between belligerent forces and oversee cease fires. After cold-war international community turned to peacekeeping to respond to conflicts within states.
