Francis Kofi Abiew

Areas of Interest

Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty, Responsibility to Protect, International Human Rights, International Law on the Use of Force, UN, Peace operations, NGOs in conflict and Post-Conflict settings, International Criminal law and Justice.

Scholarly Work

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Towards International Justice: The Law and Politics of Prosecutions at the International Criminal Court (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Forthcoming) (under contract) (with Noemi Gal-Or)

The Evolution of the Doctrine and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention (The Hague: Kluwer Law International Publishers, 1999)

REFEREED ARTICLES

"Humanitarian Action under Fire: Reflections on the Role of NGOs in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations", International Peacekeeping, Vol.19, No.2, Spring 2012, pp.203–216

"Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Redefining a Role for ‘Kind-hearted Gunmen‘", Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 29, No. 2, August 2010, Special Issue, pp.93–109

"NGO-Military Relations in Peace Operations", International Peacekeeping, Vol.10, No.1, Spring 2003 Special Issue, pp.24–39 

"Outside Agents and the Politics of Peacebuilding and Reconciliation", International Journal, Vol.LV, No.1, Winter 1999–2000, pp.80–106 (with Tom Keating) 

"NGOs and UN Peacekeeping Operations: Strange Bedfellows", International Peacekeeping, Vol.6,No.2, Summer 1999, pp.88–110 (with Tom Keating) 

"Assessing Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War Period: Sources of Consensus", International Relations, Vol.XIV, No.2, August 1998, pp.61–90 

BOOK CHAPTER

"Multilateralism and United States Foreign Policy: The United Nations in the Clinton Era", in Robert W. Murray ed., Seeking Order in Anarchy: Multilateralism as State Strategy (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press) 2016, pp. 153-176. 

"International Responsibility of the AOG in International Law: Is there a Case for an African Approach?", in Noemi Gal-Or, Math Noortmann, Cedric Ryngaert eds., Responsibilities of the Non-State  Actor in Armed Conflict and the Market Place: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings (Leiden: Brill Nijhoff 2015) pp. 347-370 (with Noemi Gal-Or)

"Libya, Intervention, and Responsibility: The Dawn of a New Era?" in Carsten Stahn and Henning Melber eds., Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency : Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjold (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp.536-560 (with Noemi Gal-Or)

"Article 4(h) intervention: Problems and Prospects" in Dan Kuwali and Frans Viljoen eds., Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act (New York: Routledge Publishers, 2014), pp.109-126

"The East Pakistan (Bangladesh) Intervention of 1971" in Samuel Totten and Paul R. Bartrop eds., The Genocide Studies Reader (New York: Routledge Publishers, 2009), pp.390–395 (Reprint)

"Vietnam’s intervention in Cambodia (Kampuchea),1978" in Samuel Totten and Paul R. Bartrop eds., The Genocide Studies Reader(NewYork:Routledge Publishers,2009), pp.395–397 (Reprint)

"Kosovo, Iraq and the Evolution of the Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention" in Osvaldo Croci and Amy Verdun eds., The Transatlantic Divide: Foreign and Security Policies in the Atlantic Alliance from Kosovo to Iraq (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), pp.64–76

"Defining a Role for Civil Society: Humanitarian NGOs and Peacebuilding Operations" in Tom Keating and Andy Knight eds., Building Sustainable Peace (Edmonton and Tokyo: University of Alberta Press/United Nations University Press, 2004) (With Tom Keating), pp.93–117

"NGO-Military Relations in Peace Operations" in Henry F. Carey and Oliver P. Richmond eds., Mitigating Conflict: The Role of NGOs ( London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003), pp.24–39

"Humanitarian Intervention in Africa: Rwanda and Liberia" in Malinda S. Smith ed., Globalizing Africa (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, 2003), pp.147–166

BOOK REVIEWS

David Malone, Decision-Making in the Security Council: The Case of Haiti (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1998) 334pp. International Journal, Vol.LV, No.3, Summer 2000, pp.524–525

OTHER PUBLICATIONS 

"Does the Prospect of a Unified Syrian Opposition make Outside Intervention more Likely?", The Morningside Post, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, November 21, 2012

From Civil Strife to Civil Society: NGO-Military Cooperation in Peace Operations, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Occasional Paper No. 39, 2003

Canadian Defence and the Canada-US Strategic Partnership, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Occasional Paper No. 29, 2003 (Conference Report)

Democratic Civil-Military Relations, Prepared for the Universities Canada and the Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 2002 (Conference Report)

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION  

"Faculty Advisor", KMUN Delegation to the 24th Session of Harvard World Model United Nations, Seoul, South Korea, March 16-20, 2015

"International Responsibility of the Non-State Actor in International Law: Is There a Case for a Multi-Cultural Approach?", presented at Kwantlen Institute for Transborder Studies and Political Science Department, Oxford Brookes University, Non-State Actor Committee of the International Law Association, International Law Association-Canada, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, and the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research Belgium, joint international conference on 'Non-State Actor Responsibilities: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Considerations', at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, BC, June 26-28, 2013 (with Noemi-Gal-Or)

"The African Union and Intervention for Human Protection: Prospects and Problems", invited, presented at conference on 'Article 4h@10: How to End Mass Atrocities in Africa?', Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, December 6-7, 2012

"Jus-Post-Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations", invited participant, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, University of Leiden, at Peace Palace, International Court of Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands, May 31-June, 2012

"Military Intervention: Interests and Values". invited, presented at 28th University of Manitoba Political Studies Students' conference on 'Twenty Years of Western Military Interventon: Protecting Whose Right(s)', University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, February 1-3, 2012

"Protecting Civilians In Libya", presented at Political Science Students Association Symposium, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, January 26, 2012 (with Noemi Gal-Or)

"Has the UN Passed its 'Sell By' Date", invited keynote speaker, 19th Annual University of British Columbia Model United Nations, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 7-9, 2012

"Libya, Intervention, and Responsibility: Dawn of a New Era?', invited, presented at The Hague Academic Coalition, Embassy of Sweden, the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation conference on 'Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency: Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)', Peace Palace, International Court of Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands, November 9-10, 2011 (with Noemi Gal-Or)

"Humanitarian Action under Fire: Reflections on the Role of NGOs in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations", presented at the Twenty Fourth Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Wilfrid Laurier University and The Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario, June 2-4, 2011

"Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Redefining a Role for 'Kind-hearted Gunmen'", invited, presented at workshop on 'The Ethics of Intervention/Protection: Contending Approaches', Center for International Human Rights and the Institute of Criminal Justice Ethics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York City, January 21-22, 2010

"The Hague Conventions and the Role of NGOs", presented ar a symposium on the 100th anniversary of the Hague Conventions, Institute for Transborder Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond campus, B.C., November 6, 2007

"NGOs and the Military in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Rethinking Strategies toward Sustainable Peace", invited, presented at conference on 'The Challenges of Peacebuilding: Reconstructing Shattered Societies', Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, February 3-5, 2006

"The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in Peace Operations", presented at the Institute for Transborder Studies, Point of View Lecture Series, No.8, Kwantlen University College, Surrey campus, B.C., March 17, 2005

"Kosovo and the Question of Humanitarian Intervention", invited, presented at conference on 'A Transatlantic Divide on Security" Canada, the European Union, NATO and the New Bush Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Self-Defence', University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., June 11-13, 2004

"From Civil Strife to Civic Society: NGO-Military Coordination in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies", invited, presented at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 4-6, 2003

"Sovereignty, Intervention and Reconstruction: What Can Outsiders Do?", invited, presented at conference on 'ECOWAS, Conflict Prevention and Human Security in West Africa - A Response to NEPAD', Accra, Ghana, October 23-25, 2002

"Post Conflict Reconstruction: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice", invited participant, Wilton Park, in association with The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development, at Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, UK, September 30-October 4, 2002

"Canadian Defence and the Canada-US Strategic Partnership", participant and rapporteur, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Center for the Study of the Presidency, and Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Carleton University, at The Lord Elgin Hotel Ottawa, September 5-6, 2002

"Strengthening the Capacity of the United Nations in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding", invited participant, Wilton Park, in association with The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development, at Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, UK, March 4-8, 2002

"Nongovernmental Organizations and the Military in Complex Emergencies", invited participant, Wilton Park, in association with The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development, at Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, UK, April 23-26, 2001

"Humanitarian Intervention? How Can we Do it Better?", invited participant, Wilton Park, in association with The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence, Department for International Development, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, at Wiston House, Steyning. West Sussex, UK, February 19-23, 2001

"International Institutions and Human Survival", invited, presented to the Global Survival Workshop, The Faculty Retirees Association, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, March 4, 2000

"The Role of Outside Actors and the Politics of Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Africa" presented at the Third Annual Africa Society Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 25-26, 2000 (with To Keating)

Panel Chair on "De-Militarization, Peace and Good Governance in Africa", Second Annual Africa Society Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, February 26-28, 1999

"Outside Agents and the Politics of Reconciliation" presented ar the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, June 16-18, 1999 (with Tom Keating)

"The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Peacekeeping Operations" presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, June 17-19, 1998 (with Tom Keating)

"Re-examining the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention in International Relations" presented at the Academic Council on the United Nations System/American Society of International Law Summer Workshop on International Organization Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, July 28-August 9, 1996

"Towards the Establishment of an International Criminal Court", presented at the Eight Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, June 19-21, 1995