Human Rights Violations in Post-Conflict Areas as a Threat to Peace and Security: UN Mission in Kosovo

• Authors: Judita Krasniqi

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the concept of human rights and security in post-conflict areas in the context of international missions, the process of building a human rights, based on security, and the securement of sustainable peace aims. In Kosovo, the responsibility of the international community to respect human rights have resulted in violations that has seriously put peace and security at risk between Kosovan ethnic groups after 1999. Thus, this article explains how human rights violations continued to be a security threat for Kosovo for two decades until 2008.

Keywords

EN

human rights; security; international missions; post-conflict areas; Kosovo

• Publisher: European Association for Security
• Journal: Securitologia
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2 (26)
• Pages: 68-81

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Judita Krasniqi

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/24497436SCU.17.008.9786

Biblioteka Nauki

2052224