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Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel

Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel

Author: Ai Kihara-Hunt
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004328808
Published In: March 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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Ai Kihara-Hunt’s

Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel

analyzes whether the mechanisms that address criminal accountability of United Nations police personnel serving in peace operations are effective, and if there is a problem, how it can be mitigated.

The volume reviews the obligations of States and the UN to investigate and prosecute criminal acts committed by UN police, and examines the jurisdictional and immunity issues involved. It concludes that these do not constitute legal barriers to accountability, although immunity poses some problems in practice. The principal problem appears to be the lack of political will to bring prosecutions, as well as a lack of transparency, which makes it difficult accurately to determine the scale of the problem.

Excerpt of table of contents:

Foreword by William G. O’Neill

Abstract

Acknowledgement

List of Cases

List of Treaties

Acronyms

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1. The issue

2. The evolution of UN Peace Operations

3. The scope of this work

4. Issues outside the scope of this work