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This thesis examines my personal experience of human rights violations in Africa, including some stories of my closest relatives. I address the urgent need of respecting human dignities in Africa from the perspective of a victim. As a result of the failures of officials to take …

This dissertation emerges out of the notion that the United Nations Security Council's Title VII interventions follow a decision making process that weighs not only on denotative and legal interpretations of threat to international peace and security but also on common triggers …

Throughout history, warring parties have contravened norms or laws that prescribe the protection of noncombatant civilians, and wars have often wreaked tremendous havoc on civilian populations. In this dissertation, I investigate conditions under which state leaders embroiled in…

In autumn 1911 Italy invaded Ottoman Libya, sparking a complex thirty-two year conflict whose roots stretched all the way back to the Congresses of Berlin and which would only end with Italy's expulsion during World War II. From the very beginning of the conflict, representation…

Global demand for peacekeeping is growing, especially in Africa. The United Nations has traditionally been at the forefront of developing peacekeeping theory and practice, and remains the primary operational agency for peacekeeping in Africa. But increasing emphasis is being pla…