The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions since 1990

In Part II: The Roles of the Security Council, in The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice, eds. Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum

2008

By David Cortright, George A. Lopez, Linda M. Gerber-Stellingwerf

This chapter explores the role of sanctions in Security Council actions, and specifically explores: sanctions in Iraq; an overview of the efficacy of UN sanctions in general; humanitarian impacts and sanctions; evaluation and adjusting of sanctions to respond to adverse impacts; the fine-tuning of sanctions, emphasizing travel bans, arms embargoes, and sanctions on commodity exports; regional sanctions assistance missions; Sanctions and terrorism; and the improving of sanctions monitoring and implementation.

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Notes

David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.

George A. Lopez holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force. For a list of publications by Lopez, please go to the Kroc Institute, Lopez, CV.

Linda M. Gerber-Stellingwerf is program director of the Fourth Freedom Forum and codirector of the joint Fourth Freedom Forum/Kroc Institute Sanctions and Security Project. She received her Masters of Library Science degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. Gerber-Stellingwerf has coauthored and edited various reports and books produced by the Fourth Freedom Forum. She is a member of the American Library Association.

The Fourth Freedom Forum's mission is to encourage discussion, development, and dissemination of ideas that can free humankind from the fear of war. The goal is to prevent armed aggression and eliminate nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction through enforceable international law. The Forum explores options for more effective and humane forms of economic statecraft to promote global norms and international cooperation.