2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Pluralistic Re-construction of the United Nations Peacekeeping Activities and Their Effectiveness

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530035
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	International law
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	SAKAI Hironobu Kyoto University, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (80252807)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	国際法 / 国際連合 / 集団安全保障 / 平和維持活動
Research Abstract	Recently, the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Activities has been developed in the aspects of their contents as well as of their implementation. This study testifies that the UN Peacekeeping Operations have included various mandate for the peacebuilding after the civil wars or in the failed states, and that the UN has submitted some new operations as the way of collective security in international society, such as the collective responses towards the piracy. It also makes it clear that the richness of the UN Peacekeeping Activities has developed the ways of implementing these operations, like with the appearance of the "robust" peacekeeping or through the organic combinations between the UN and the Member States or the regional organizations.