Project on UN Security Council
The Project on UN Security Council and Non-international Armed Conflicts investigates the normative consequences of the Security Council's involvement in non-international armed conflicts (NIACs). NIACs now make up the overwhelming majority of armed conflicts around the world. The data compiled by the project reveals both the breadth and depth of council involvement in those conflicts. The principal investigators have coded all council resolutions on the most consequential NIACs from 1990 to 2013. The resolutions were coded for the imposition of binding obligations on conflict parties and third parties regarding a wide variety of international law issues. These range from human rights to international humanitarian law to peace agreements to the prohibition on the use of force. The result is the first empirical evidence of how the council has sought to regulate NIACs.
Principal investigators
- Dr. Kristen E. Boon, Miriam T. Rooney Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
- Professor Gregory H. Fox, Wayne State University Law School; Director of Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies
- Isaac Jenkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan Department of Political Science
Data and coding materials
- Coded security council resolutions on NIACs
- Project on UN Security Council and Non-international Armed Conflicts Codebook
- Appendix II - Expanded Discussion of Coding Methodology
- UN Security Council resolutions
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
Council and customary international law
International Law Commission
Related articles
- Maiko Meguro, Customary International Law and Non-State Actors: Between Anthropomorphism and Artificial Unity, in Non-State Actors and the Formation of Customary International Law (Iain Scobbie & Sufyan Droubi, eds, forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2018)
- Neils Blokker, International Organizations and Customary International Law, 14 Int'l Org. L. Rev. 1 (2017)
- Rosanna Deplano, Assessing the Role of Resolutions in the ILC Draft Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law: Substantive and Methodological Issues, University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No. 17-05 (2017)
- Sufyan Droubi, The Role of the United Nations in the Formation of Customary International Law in the Field of Human Rights, 19 Int'l Comm. L. Rev. 68 (2017)
- Sir Michael Wood, International Organizations and Customary International Law, 48 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 609 (2015)
- Marko Divac Öberg, The Legal Effects of Resolutions of the UN Security Council and General Assembly in the Jurisprudence of the ICJ, 16 Eur. J. Int'l L. 879, 87980 (2005)