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Honert, Alexander van den (2015)

Humanitarian Transport in Bosnia. The Dutch-Belgian Transportbattalion

Master thesis | History (MA)

From 1992 up to 1995 a Dutch-Belgian transportbattalion delivered humanitarian relief to the population of the war-torn Bosnia. Over 100.000 metric tons was distributed under the flag of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). Although the mission was highly succesfull, scholarly attention has almost exclusively been paid to the failures of UNPROFOR, most notably the fall of Srebrenica. This thesis draws attention to the more succesfull aspect of the mission: the delivery of humanitarian aid. It focusses on the Dutch-Belgian transportbattalion and its threefold mission: i) to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid, ii) to reduce the human rights violations and iii) to create conditions in which a political solution for the conflict could be reached.

United Nations

Military History

Humanitarian transport

Author

Honert, Alexander van den

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Political Cultures & National Identities

Supervisors

Schoenmaker, Ben

ECTS Credits

40

Language

nl