Book

Recueil

Promoting peace through international law

ed. by Cecilia Marcela Bailliet and Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

XLIII, 447 p. ; 24 cm

978-0-19-872273-1

English

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Within international law there is no unified concept of peace. This book addresses this gap by considering the liberal conception of peace within Western philosophy alongside the principle of 'peaceful coexistence' supported in the East. By tracing the evolution of the international law of peace through its historical and philosophical origins, this book investigates whether there is a 'right to peace'. The book explores how existing international law and institutions contribute to the establishment of peace, or how they fail to do so. It sets out how international law promotes the negative dimension of peace-the absence of violence-as well as its positive dimension: the presence of underlying conditions for peace. It also investigates whether international actors and institutions have particular obligations in relation to the establishment and maintenance of peace.

• 2015, Chapter, United Nations peace operations and international law : what kind of law promotes what kind of peace ? / Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen
• 2015, Chapter, The potential of the Arms Trade Treaty to reduce violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law / Gro Nystuen and Kjolv Egeland
• 2015, Chapter, International fact-finding mechanisms : lighting candles or cursing darkness ? / Cecilie Hellestveit