The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in
the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has been mandated to implement
“urgent temporary measures” in the form of arrests and detentions of individuals.
This rather innovative mandate brings about several legal and conceptual
consequences that the article addresses, focusing on the compatibility of these
measures with UN peacekeeping norms and principles and with past UN
practice. In addition, the measures are said to contribute to law and order, public
safety, the fight against impunity, and to the rule of law. This sheds light on the
UN’s interesting conception of the rule of law in the Central African Republic
and in conflict and post-conflict settings in general.