This book proposes a normative framework specifically designed for the com- plex and legally uncertain time period between armed conflicts and peace. As such, it contributes both to the furthering of a jus post bellum framework, and to enhanced legal clarity in complex and legally uncertain environments. This, in turn, contributes to strengthened protection engagements, and thus to improved prospects of enabling sustainable peace and security in both national and inter- national perspectives.
The book offers a novel but persuasive argument for a legal framework specific for transitional environments. Such a legal framework, it is argued, is warranted in order to enable legal clarity in contemporary and outstanding legal issues, as well as to further peace efforts in complex environments. The legal framework suggested proposes a dividing line between applicable legal frameworks that, it is submitted, enhances both legal clarity on protection engagements and the quest for sustainable peace. The framework proposed is founded on a legal analysis of the protective nature and function of law. It thus provides a rare but important perspective on law that is of value in the quest for sustainable peace and security. The research draws uniquely on both contemporary legal debates and peace and conflict research. It does so in order to enable legal analysis that is both legally sound, as well as appropriate and adequate in today’s peace and security realities.
The book provides a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy- makers in the areas of public international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, (the law of) peace operations, and peace and security studies.