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Elephant Poaching and Ivory Trafficking as a Threat to the Peace

Part of: Elephant Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anne Peters
Anne Peters*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg (Germany), the universities of Heidelberg and Basel (Switzerland)
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The two African states Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic have been struck by civil war enmeshed with military involvement of neighbouring states. The ongoing conflicts have been fuelled by the fight over the countries’ natural resources, ranging from diamonds over gold to ivory. Since the end of the 1990s, the UN Security Council and other UN bodies have been dealing with the conflicts in Congo, and have been trying to bring to an end and to sanction the serious violations of human rights and of IHL that have been committed by all sides in those conflicts. The international community’s attempt to come to grips with the so-called “blood diamonds”, inter alia through a multi-stakeholder process and certification scheme is well known. With two resolutions of January 2014, the UN Security Council addresses the destabilizing effects of the illegal exploitation of wildlife.

Type
Symposium: Elephant Law
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 162 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Peters, Anne, Novel Practice of the Security Council: Wildlife Poaching and Trafficking as a Threat to the Peace, EJIL: Talk! (Feb. 12, 2014)Google Scholar.

2 SC Res. 2134 (Jan. 28, 2014).

3 SC Res. 2136 (Jan. 30, 2014).

4 SC Res. 2127 (Dec. 5, 2013).

5 Id. at preamble, paras. 14-15.

6 Id. at preamble.

7 See SC Res. 2136 para. 4 (Jan. 30, 2014).

8 Id. at para. 24.

9 SC Res. 2121 (Oct. 10, 2013).

10 SC Res. 2127 (Dec. 5, 2013).

11 See SC Res. 2134 preamble (Jan. 28, 2014).

12 Id. at para. 37.

13 UN Secretary-General, Rep. of the Secretary-General on the Activities on the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa and on the Lord’s Resistance Army-affected Areas, UN Doc. S/2013/297 (May 20, 2013).

14 UN Secretary-General, Letter dated Sept. 16, 2013 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council, Annex para. 19, UN Doc. S/2013/557 (Sept. 16, 2013).

15 UN Secretary-General, Rep. of the Secretary-General on the Central African Republic Submitted Pursuant to Paragraph 22 of Security Council Resolution 2121 (2013), para. 12, UN Doc. S/2013/677 (Nov. 15, 2013).

16 Id.

17 UN Targets Wildlife Traders in Africa Sanctions, Huffington Post (Jan. 30, 2014).