The publications listed here represent a small selection of the work of GCILS staff members. To see full listings of publications please click through to the University of Glasgow main webpages in each individual staff member profile.
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law
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From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace? offers the first comprehensive legal and interdisciplinary examination of how international law engages with the realities of protracted conflict. Drawing on a wide range of legal fields—including international humanitarian law, development law, economic law, refugee law, human rights law, international criminal law, and peacebuilding law—contributors explore how legal regimes interact, overlap, and at times conflict in these complex settings.
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International arbitration of violent territorial disputes: what role for equity in achieving peaceful settlement?
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Journal of International Dispute Settlement (doi: 10.1093/jnlids/idaf022)
The Genocide Convention. Article-by-Article Commentary
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75 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the first universal human rights treaty of the United Nations era and the keystone of the international legal regime against genocide. In the second edition of their work, Lars Berster, Björn Schiffbauer and Christian J. Tams engage with the Genocide Convention's provisions on an article-by-article basis and elucidate how they contribute to the global fight against genocide. Their Commentary offers an in-depth analysis of the Convention's nineteen provisions. It offers authoritative guidance on the definition of genocide, on the duties of States to prevent and punish it, and on the Convention's implementation regime. Building on the success of the first edition, the Commentary will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners working in international law, criminal law, genocide studies and human rights.
The identity work of journalists and humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians sites
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This article interrogates the simplistic juxtaposition of protectors and protected in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites, by asking: who was civilian in South Sudan, and how were civilians being protected? We present a civilian landscape that is much broader and more complex than the dominant PoC imaginary. Drawing attention to civilians who engage in professional tasks, the article considers the everyday practices of humanitarians and journalists. This illustrates that the category of ‘civilian’ is not the bureaucratic or legal certainty suggested by international law or PoC discourse, but unstable, shifting and constructed through everyday practice.
References to Youth in Peace Agreements, 1990-2022: Introducing a new dataset
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The aim of this report is to introduce the novel Dataset of References to Youth in Peace Agreements, 1990-2022 (YPAD). YPAD contains 208 peace agreements that refer to youth, young people, or similar, concluded between the years of 1990-2022 to bring an end to conflicts of inter-state, intra-state, or local nature. The dataset codes references to youth in peace agreements according to eight main themes and 53 sub-themes, in addition to including information on the respective agreement, conflict, and peace process, among others. The report explores the characteristics of peace agreements that refer to youth and offers a thematic analysis of the references to youth in the texts of these agreements.
A Dataset of References to Youth in Peace Agreements (YPAD), 1990-2022
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The dataset (YPAD) compiles 208 peace agreements which were concluded in the period of 1990-2022 and make an express textual reference to youth, young people, and similar. These represent approximately 12% of all peace agreements concluded in this period. The agreements in YPAD address inter-state, intra-state, or local level armed conflicts, relating to 70 peace processes from across the world. YPAD offers a thematic categorisation of the references to youth in peace agreements under eight main themes and 53 sub-themes. (2023-07-27)