"It is well known that most crimes against humanity occur in conflict situations. So far, however, there have been few studies dealing with the question of whether the respective techniques for ending the conflict or for containing the atrocities are fully compatible in the context of everyday efforts The United Nations has written extensive "Lessons Learned" reports on the failures in Rwanda, Srebrenica and Sri Lanka and there are a large number of scientific, journalistic and eyewitness reports on other critical conflict situations which are intended to serve as the basis for one serve critical examination of the challenges of international conflict settlement. The seminar is based on a comparative assessment of international efforts to end armed conflict and prevent crimes against humanity in a number of internal conflict situations - some of which have been relatively successful and others which have failed dramatically in some cases. The first category includes the conflicts in Kenya (2008), Guinea (2009) and the Ivory Coast (2010-2011). The second group includes Rwanda (1994), Bosnia (1995), Sri Lanka (2009) and Syria (2011). In each of the seven cases, international decision-making will be viewed both from a conflict settlement perspective and from the prevention of crimes against humanity perspective, in order to gain a better understanding of the relative priorities of the two approaches and to understand how efforts to pursue a goal reinforce the other aspect or make a solution more difficult. The focus will be on the UN Security Council and the UN Secretariat, although regional actors and central member states are also taken into account. The aim of the seminar is to gain an insight into the challenges of international conflict settlement and to investigate whether the United Nations has learned from its failures and improved its handling of conflict situations. For this we will look at the emergence and further development of the conflict settlement by the United Nations and critically analyze its implementation on the basis of eight case studies. Finally, the question should be answered whether common elements of the successful cases and common elements of the failed cases can be demonstrated. " close