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Author:   Cecilia Marcela Bailliet (Professor of Law, Dr. jur., Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen (Professor of Law, PhD, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.886kg
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9780198722731

ISBN 10:   0198722737
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   29 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Cecilia M. Bailliet and Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen: Promoting peace through international law: Introduction Part I The normative scope of peace and its exceptions 2: Kristoffer Lidén and Henrik Syse: The politics of peace and law: Realism, internationalism and the cosmopolitan challenge 3: Cecilia M. Bailliet: Normative foundation of the international law of peace 4: Simon O'Connor and Cecilia M. Bailliet: The good faith obligation to maintain international peace and security and the pacific settlement of disputes 5: Pål Wrange: Protecting which peace for whom against what? A conceptual analysis of collective security 6: Ola Engdahl: Protection of human rights and the maintenance of international peace and security: Necessary precondition or a clash of interests? Part II Preconditions of peace 7: Kjersti Skarstad: Human rights violations and conflict risk - a theoretical and empirical assessment 8: Bård A. Andreassen: Traps of violence: A human rights analysis of relationships between peace and development 9: Christina Voigt: Environmentally sustainable development and peace: The role of international law 10: Ole Kristian Fauchald: World peace through world trade? The role of dispute settlement in the WTO 11: Gro Nystuen and Kjølv Egeland: The potential of the Arms Trade Treaty to reduce violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law Part III Civil society participation in the promotion and safeguarding of peace 12: Vibeke Blaker Strand: Non-discrimination and equality as the foundation of peace 13: Maja Janmyr: Refugees and peace 14: Cornelia Weiss: Barely begun: The inclusion of women as peacemakers, peacekeepers, and peacebuilders in international law and practice Part IV Institutional implementation of peace 15: Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen: United Nations peace operations and international law: What kind of law promotes what kind of peace? 16: Jemima García-Godos: It's about trust: Transitional justice and accountability in the search for peace 17: Gentian Zyberi: The role and contribution of international courts in furthering peace as an essential community interest 18: Cecilie Hellestveit: International fact-finding mechanisms - lighting candles or cursing darkness? 19: Azin Tadjdini: The constitutional dimension of peace 20: Maria D. Sommardahl: Education for peace: Epilogue

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"Cecilia Marcela Bailliet is Professor Dr. Jur., Director of the Master's Program in Public International Law and Coordinator at the PluriCourts Centre for the Study of the Legitimacy of the International Judiciary at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has a doctoral degree in law from the University of Oslo and combined JD/MA (honours) degree from the George Washington University Law School & Elliott School of International Affairs. She researches and teaches within the cross fields of international public law, human rights, refugee law, and peace. Among her publications are: 'Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes' (2012), 'Cosmopolitan Justice and Its Discontents' (co-edited with Katja Franko Aas, 2011), and 'Security: A Multidisciplinary Normative Approach' (2009). Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen is Professor of Law (PhD), Director of Research, and Deputy Director, at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, where he does research and teaching in human rights law and international humanitarian law. He is the author of the book 'The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers' (2012) and editor of the anthology 'Searching for a ""Principle of Humanity "" in International Humanitarian Law' (2013). He is the Norwegian editor of the Nordic Journal of Law and Justice ('Retfærd'), member of the Editorial Board of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, and responsible for entries concerning the laws of war in the Norwegian encyclopedia 'Store norske leksikon'."

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