{"id":22941,"date":"2017-05-19T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T09:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/the-transformative-power-of-the-united-nations-peacekeeping-in-the-protection-of-civilians-part-1\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:41","slug":"the-transformative-power-of-the-united-nations-peacekeeping-in-the-protection-of-civilians-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/the-transformative-power-of-the-united-nations-peacekeeping-in-the-protection-of-civilians-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transformative Power of the United Nations Peacekeeping in the Protection of Civilians &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a name=\"_Toc270626348\"><\/a>1. Introduction<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cIt is the duty of an individual, moreover a soldier and a peacekeeper, to ensure the protection of a defenceless civilian population under imminent threat of physical violence. Avoiding this responsibility is to avoid one\u2019s obligation to go to the assistance of someone whose life is under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Former Force Commander, 2003 cited in OCHA, 2009: 227)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Download-File-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the full analysis in PDF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA &nbsp; 1. Introduction \u201cIt is the duty of an individual,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22942,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22941\/revisions\/22942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}