“Watch out, UNPROFOR!” – some observations on criminal and unprofessional conduct of peacekeeping forces of United Nations in Croatia
“Watch out, UNPROFOR!” – some observations on criminal and unprofessional conduct of peacekeeping forces of United Nations in Croatia

Author(s): Ivica Miškulin
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Military history, Security and defense, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: UNPROFOR; UNCRO; UN; crime; unprofessional behavior; peacekeeping; Republic of Croatia; Croatian War of Independence;
Summary/Abstract: In the paper, based on the available sources and contemporary periodical publications, the author analyzes different aspects of criminal and unprofessional conduct of members of United Nations (UN) peace troops in Croatia. It is determined how a whole sequence of factors affected such aspects of conduct of blue helmets: total problematic of the peacekeeping operation (with a special emphasis on its execution), particularities of areas of deployment (with a special emphasis on the material situation of occupied territories), level of equipment, training, and self-discipline of certain national contingents of peacekeeping forces, and possibilities of activity of UN and command of peacekeeping forces administrations. Chosen aspects of criminal and unprofessional conduct of members of peacekeeping forces of UN have been analyzed thematically, i.e. separated into separate entities.

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