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This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity
through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about
legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and
cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and
hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal
studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal
plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can
contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when
different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each
other.
This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity
through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about
legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and
cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and
hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal
studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal
plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can
contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when
different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each
other.
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to
replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council's mandate
and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at
its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission's
flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's
failings, the Council's form, nature and many of its roles and
functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This
book examines the creation and formative years of the United
Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the
Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories
of international relations are used to examine the Council and its
functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed
in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the
Council has become politicised to the same extent as the
Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their
functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that
of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on
observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to
offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The
United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to
students and scholars of human rights law and international
relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government
agencies.
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to
replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council's mandate
and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at
its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission's
flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's
failings, the Council's form, nature and many of its roles and
functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This
book examines the creation and formative years of the United
Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the
Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories
of international relations are used to examine the Council and its
functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed
in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the
Council has become politicised to the same extent as the
Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their
functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that
of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on
observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to
offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The
United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to
students and scholars of human rights law and international
relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government
agencies.
In an increasingly complex world, it is more crucial than ever to
have a full picture of how international peacekeeping can be a
force for good, but can also have potentially negative impacts on
host communities. After thirteen years of presence in Haiti, the
highly controversial United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
has now withdrawn. The UN's legacy in Haiti is not all negative,
but it does include sexual scandals, the divisive use of force to
'clean up' difficult neighbourhoods as well as a cholera epidemic,
brought inadvertently by Nepalese peacekeepers that killed more
than 8,000 Haitians and infected more than 600,000. This book
presents a unique multi-disciplinary analysis of the legacy of the
mission for Haiti. It presents an innovative account of
contemporary international peacekeeping law and practice, arguing
for a new model of accountability, going beyond the outdated
immunity mechanisms to foreground human rights.
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