Who Will Police the Peace-Builders - The Failure to Establish Accountability for the Participation of United Nations Civilian Police in the Trafficking of Women in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
![handle is hein.journals/colhr34 and id is 483 raw text is: WHO WILL POLICE THE PEACE-BUILDERS?
THE FAILURE TO ESTABLISH ACCOUNTABILITY
FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF UNITED NATIONS
CIVILIAN POLICE IN THE TRAFFICKING OF
WOMEN IN POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
by Jennifer Murray*
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new era for world peacekeeping.
Just as the antagonism between communist and democratic countries was
fading, the community of nations was threatened again by nationalistic and
ethnic rivalries in countries like Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia.
Pressure on the United Nations's capacity for the prevention and resolution of
conflicts increased, and the Security Council, less encumbered by the vetoes
that were characteristic of Cold War tensions, was better able to respond to
those demands.1 The result was a proliferation of peace operations across the
* B.A., Middlebury College (1996); J.D., Columbia University School of Law
(expected 2003); Articles Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2002-03). 1 am
grateful to Dorchen Leidholdt, Catherine Powell, and Pamela Shifman for their helpful
comments on earlier drafts. I would also like to thank Shiva Eftekhari, Lisa Howley, and Jane
Yang for their invaluable editorial assistance. The author is solely responsible for the opinions
expressed in this Note.
I. See An Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-
keeping, Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to the Statement Adopted by the Summit
Meeting of the Security Council on Jan. 31, 1992, U.N. GAOR, 47th Sess., 14-15, U.N.
Doc. A/47/277-S/24111 (1992) [hereinafter Agenda for Peace]; see also Frederic L. Kirgis,
Jr., The Security Council's First Fifty Years, 89 Am. J. Int'l L. 506, 512 (1995) (The Cold
War effectively prevented the Security Council from acting under chapter VII except to
counteract apartheid and the vestiges of colonialism.). There were 279 vetoes cast in the
Security Council from 1945-1990. Agenda for Peace, supra, 14.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/colhr34&div=17&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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