Broadening the Edges (Refugees and Human Rights Volume 1)

Refugee Definition and International Protection Revisited
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-90-411-0480-9
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 428 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1769 g

Reihe: Refugees and Human Rights

This ground-breaking volume brings the refugee issue out of the narrow confines of refugee law into the centre of international law and international relations. It reviews the concept of the refugee and the international protection of refugees from the unconventional angle of the prospects and limitations of multilateralism in the post Cold War era. This approach – taking conflict prevention and resolution as its point of departure – ensures that Broadening the Edges: Refugee Definition and International Protection Revisited is not only novel, but comprehensive and practical as well.

It is comprehensive because it offers a review of state practice within the United Nations and regional contexts, as well as a review of the practice of the United Nations inter-agency system. It is practical because it is based on the personal experience of its author, not on theoretical models. The broadening concept of security, affecting the attitudes of states towards refugees, is the underlying theme of the book. As a result, the contemporary preoccupation with how best to provide international protection to all those in need of it is reviewed from a number of relevant perspectives – including that of peacekeeping, sanctions, and coordination and competence within the United Nations.

Pirkko Kourula worked for some twelve years in UNHCR in Asia, Europe and the USA, and was Deputy Director of UNHCR Liaison Office at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 1991 to 1996. She was also Director for Humanitarian Assistance and Food Aid at FINNIDA, the Finnish International Development Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kourula, Pirkko

Kourula, Pirrko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Refugees in the International Scene - A Contemporary Framework. II. The International Refugee Definition. III. Regional Refugee Definitions. IV. The Refugee Definition and UNHCR. V. International Protection. VI. Re-Availment of National Protection. VII. Towards a Refugee Strategy for the 21st Century - A Summary of Reflections. Select Bibliography. Index.