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Human Rights Violations in Post-Conflict Areas as a Threat to Peace and Security: UN Mission in Kosovo
Human Rights Violations in Post-Conflict Areas as a Threat to Peace and Security: UN Mission in Kosovo

Author(s): Judita Krasniqi
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Security and defense, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Collegium Civitas
Keywords: human rights; security; international missions; post-conflict areas; Kosovo;

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the concept of human rights and security in post-conflict areas in the context of international missions, the process of building a human rights, based on security, and the securement of sustainable peace aims. In Kosovo, the responsibility of the international community to respect human rights have resulted in violations that has seriously put peace and security at risk between Kosovan ethnic groups after 1999. Thus, this article explains how human rights violations continued to be a security threat for Kosovo for two decades until 2008.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 68-81
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English