This book explains the complex origins and evolution of Sri Lanka's civil war and the resulting massive civilian displacement. It is an account of frontline conditions during a critical period and an overview of the alternating warfare and ceasefires during the last fifteen years. William Clarance analyses the scope for protecting civilians in a war zone and its implications for UN policy. He argues that Washington's bullying of the UN ironically proves the points it seeks to demolish: the indispensibility of UN legitimacy and the professionalism of its field agencies. He urges the need to adopt a more actively engaged role to protect civilians in intrastate conflict, the better to address global problems such as the outflow of refugees and asylum seekers it triggers and the seeds of international terrorism it sows.
Preface I INTRODUCTION 1.UN Crisis, Dangers and Opportunity 2. Protection in a Civil War 3. Roots of Militancy, Seeds of Terrorism 4. Ironies of a Peacemaking Protectorate 5. UNRWA and UNHCR Protective Practice II BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE December 1989 - June 1990 6. Hopes for Peace, Fears of War 7. Flux in Geneva, Forebodings on the Ground III EELAM WAR II ERUPTS June - October1990 8. National Implosion : International Indifference 9. War Zone and the LTTE 10. Engagement in Mannar, Controversy in Geneva IV PROTECTIVE NEUTRAL ENGAGEMENT October 1990 - December 1991 11.Rising Tension on Mannar Island 12.Food is Neutral 13.Protection Crises 14. 'Open Relief Centres are Working' V PROTECTION and the UN in 2006 15.In and Between Sri Lankan Warfare 16.Innovative Concepts 17.Controversial Questions 18. Improvisation-Intervention-Engagement Notes Index
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