Training For Civilian Crisis Management

Author : Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Challenges in EU Civilian Crisis Management written by Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, human rights have assumed growing importance in the crisis management operations conducted by the EU. At the same time, the geopolitical context of recent years has created operational challenges going well beyond what previous Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) civilian crisis management operations had to deal with. This Occasional Paper uses the ongoing CSDP crisis management missions in Afghanistan and in Iraq - EUPOL and EUJUST LEX - as a yardstick for examining operational models chosen for high-risk CSDP civilian crisis management operations, and for assessing the degree to which these models are able to operationally integrate human rights dimensions. The paper seeks to answer the central question of whether the mission models adopted by EUPOL and EUJUST LEX can be considered as compliant with international best practices with regard to mainstreaming, protecting and promoting human rights in the context of civilian crisis response operations. While the paper does not assess per se the missions' overall effectiveness, it evaluates their operational design, and the implications that the chosen mission model has for the internal and external aspects of the missions' human rights activities.