ABSTRACT
Thus this chapter first examines how the peace enforcement doctrines of the states and international organisations that have dominated post-Cold War peace enforcement missions have responded to peace enforcers becoming involved in detaining indicted war criminals in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. The question is whether the process of including and integrating the detention of indicted war criminals into the doctrines of peace enforcement missions has already begun and if so, how far the process has come. Based on this examination and the experience of IFOR, SFOR and KFOR, the chapter also discusses how the
doctrines need to be further developed in order to fully incorporate the detention of indicted war criminals. This discussion is not only relevant for the further development of the doctrines included in this examination. It is also relevant for regional organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) that are becoming increasingly involved in peace enforcement missions. The EU has already deployed one such mission, European Force (EUFOR), in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is involved in detaining indicted war criminals and the EU is also likely to deploy another in Kosovo once the KFOR mission there comes to an end. So far the EU has adopted NATO’s peace enforcement doctrine but it is not unlikely that the EU one day will develop one of its own. The AU is in the process of establishing a new African Standby Force and, given the International Criminal Court’s involvement in Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is likely that soldiers from the African Union will be under pressure to get involved in detaining indicted war criminals. Hence, it is important that this task is also fully incorporated into the doctrine that will guide the AU’s involvement in peace enforcement.
