Guest Lecture: Contemporary Challenges to UN Peacekeeping (Kopie 1)

Contemporary Challenges to UN Peacekeeping

Professor Dr. Alexander Gilder will discuss the general difficulties faced by UN peacekeeping missions and, in particular, the current pressing situation of UNIFIL in southern Lebanon. Professor Gilder will outline the applicable law before diving into the problems the UN has encountered whilst pursuing stabilization mandates, the way it has responded to sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers, and other questions of legal responsibility that have arisen from stabilization missions in Mali, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Then he will turn to the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel where UNIFIL finds itself under immense political (and military) pressure.

Professor Dr. Alexander Gilder is Associate Professor of International Law and Security at the School of Law, University of Reading, UK, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, UK, and Associate Faculty at the School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada. He has utilised his research on human security in his work as Academic Consultant at the NATO HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) and in engagements with other areas of UK defence.