Amazon.com description: Product Description: The United Nations is one of the largest providers of assistance in post-conflict situations in the world. This book considers the human rights standards applicable to the United Nations and applied by the United Nations in post-conflict situations, including East Timor, Kosovo and Afghanistan. It looks at legal principles, peace agreements, support of democracy, human rights protection, development and other forms of reconstruction with which the UN has become involved, incuding the grandly-named task of "state-building". It deals both with the obligation upon the UN to respect human rights in post-conflict situations, and the obligation upon the UN to ensure that human rights are respected by those in positions of power in post-conflict situations. Written by an internationally renowned list of contributors, this book will be of vital use to anyone studying conflict analysis, international relations, international law and the role of the United Nations on the world stage. Contributors Include: * Christine Bell is Professor of Law, Transnational Justice Institute, University of Ulster. She is a former Member of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the Belfast Agreement. * Marcus Brand is a Special Adviser to the Director of the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw. He previously served with the OSCE in Kosovo. * Professor John P. Cerone is Director of the Center for International Law and Policy at the New England School of Law. He worked as a Human Rights Legal Advisor witht he UN Mission in Kosovo and L0egal Advisor to the UN Mission in Sierra Leone. * Dr. Robert Cryer is Lecuturer in law at the Nottingham School of Law. He was a Lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2001. * Dr. Annemarie Devereux is a lawyer and academic who specialises in international human rights law and constitutional law. She has worked in the UN Office of Legal Advisor, East Timor. * Dr. Tony Evans is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Southampton. Recent publications include The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective and an edited volume, Human Rights Fifty Years On: A Reappraisal. * Dr. L.M. Handrahan is an independent scholar/practitioner. She is the author of Gender: Ethnic War and Modern Peace and Gendering Ethnicity. * Caroline Hughes is a Lecturer in the School of Politics of the University of Nottingham and a South-East Asia specialist, whose work to date has focused on aspects of democratization in post-war Cambodia. * Lt. Col. Michael J. Kelly is currently Director of the Military Law Centre in the Australian Defense Force (ADF) Legal Office and Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, which is a joint venture between the Australian Department of Defense and the University of Melbourne. Col. Kelly has substantial operational experience having been deployed in Somalia, Bosina and East Timor. * Karen Kenny is a Barrister and independent specialist in international human rights fieldwork. Previously she was a UN officer appointed to plan and conceptualise the UN’s Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR). She served with the first UN Human rights operation in El Salvador (ONUSAL). * Dirk Klaasen – (See Above). * Boris Kondoch is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Law of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. He is Managing Editor of the journal International Peacekeeping, which has been transformed into the Yearbook of International Operations. * Milburn Line is currently Operations Manager of a USAID program in Guatemala. He worked for the OSCE Mission in Bosinia and Hercegovina from 1996 to 2000. Previously he worked for two years as a Human Rights Observer in the United Nations Human Rights Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA). * Norah Niland has worked for most of her life with the UN, but has alternated this with work