@article {1388717, title = {On Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding Mechanisms }, year = {2012}, abstract = {

A simple glance at recent news headlines reveals the growing prevalence of international missions tasked to monitor and report on potential violations of international law. \ In the past few months alone, the United Nations (UN) dispatched a team to monitor the ceasefire in Syria, and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) mandated a commission of inquiry to examine Israeli settlements in the West Bank, extended the mandate of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, and mandated a new Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. \ These missions are part of a rapidly growing trend. \ The international community {\textemdash} imbued, since the end of the Cold War, with a new sense of responsibility for international legal accountability and civilian protection {\textemdash} has increasingly employed monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding (MRF) mechanisms to collect information on the vulnerabilities of civilian populations and investigate potential violations of international law.

}, author = {Rob Grace and Claude Bruderlein} }