1. PUBLIC INT’L LAW CLASS NINE PEACEKEEPING Prof David K. Linnan USC LAW # 783 10/14/03

2. PEACEKEEPING WHAT IS POTENTIAL SOURCE OF LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR, AND WHAT ARE: Peacekeeping? Peacemaking? Humanitarian Intervention?

3. PEACEKEEPING HOW TO INTERPRET THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICT: UN Security Council Chapters VI & VII? Ordinary law of armed conflict (jus in bello)?

4. PEACEKEEPING WHAT ARE THE JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS OF UN CHARTER ART. 39: “The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression….”

5. PEACEKEEPING WHY DO WE CARE IF THE JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS IN ART. 39 ARE NARROWLY OR BROADLY INTERPRETED? DOES IT MATTER THAT MUCH OF THE LATEST PEACEKEEPING/MAKING INVOLVES INTERNAL CONFLICTS?

6. PEACEKEEPING HISTORY “Blue Helmets” & Truce Enforcement (Arab-Israeli Conflicts, Cyprus) Note ceasefires in quasi-int’l conflicts

7. PEACEKEEPING MODERN PATTERNS Failed states (Somalia, Chapter VII) States breaking up (Former Yugoslavia, esp. Bosnia & Kosovo, ?) Humanitarian intervention (post-1991, Kurds & Shiites in North & South Ira, Chapter VII)

8. PEACEKEEPING MODERN PATTERNS (CONTD) Issue of UN versus military organizations (NATO)