Subsaharan Africa / Comment
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
12/10/2005 By Luis Peral
The author, Luis Peral, reviews the results of the 2005 World Summit, focusing the assessment in reviewing the concept of the responsibility of protection and the need for the resolution of the legal and practical problem posed when the Security Council is blocked.
The UN reform, which has made satisfactory progress, has not solved the question of effective protection of basic rights in cases of "threat to human security".
This new concept, whose formulation is proposed in this document, expresses the most pressing challenges of peacekeeping actions.
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Keywords
Conflict resolution Congo Peace process UNBio author: Luis Peral
Luis Peral is PhD in Law, MA in Law of the European Union, MA in Law, BA in Political Sciences, with specialisation in International Relations (Universities Complutense and Carlos III of Madrid), and Diploma in English Law (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK). He has collaborated with FRIDE as Researcher and currently works as Director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace. He also works at the Centre for Constitutional Studies of the Ministry of the Presidency under the Ramón y Cajal Research Programme of the Spanish Government, and is Senior Research Fellow at FRIDE.
