ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the extent to which the Security Council has incorporated the creation of just economic and social conditions, as well as human rights, into its own efforts to maintain international peace and security by focusing upon two of the Council's tools – namely, peacebuilding and peacekeeping operations. Recognition of the integration of human rights into peacekeeping and peacebuilding means to view the extent to which socio-economic considerations inform the Security Council's decision-making. The need to integrate human rights into peacekeeping operations was first signalled in the Brahimi Report, which stated that the human rights component of a peace operation was critical to effective peacebuilding. Evidence of the integration of human rights into peacekeeping is evident in the Security Council statements and resolutions on peacekeeping, as well as those on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
