Responsibility to Protect and Prevent: Principles, Promises and Practicalities

✍ Scribed by John Janzekovic, Daniel Silander

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Anthem Studies in Peace, Conflict and Development)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

‘Responsibility to Protect and Prevent: Principles, Promises and Practicalities’ explores the evolution of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which – according to its supporters – has evolved into a new type of responsive norm for how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations. Arguing that the R2P ethos has been misunderstood and used ineffectively, this work defends the validity of R2P and urges for a more practical understanding that moves beyond theory.

The progression of R2P from an initial concept to formal ratification has been a very difficult one, with a great deal of disagreement over its validity as a substantive norm in international affairs. The key disagreement is not that protection or prevention are unimportant, but rather how the fine-sounding R2P principles are supposed to work in practice. This volume presents a number of important arguments that are directly related to the state vs. human security debate, with a critical analysis of the nexus between the protection verses prevention theses. Through the case study of the Libyan Crisis, Janzekovic and Silander offer an example of the R2P thesis in action, and support the claim that prevention should be more than an adjunct to protection.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Responsibility to Protect and Prevent
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Protection and Prevention
Structure of the Text
Chapter 2 STATE VERSUS HUMAN SECURITY: THE GREAT DEBATE
Security, Sovereignty and the State
State and Human Security in Weak, Failing or Failed States
Human Security During and After the Rwandan Genocide and the Balkan Wars
The Need for a Human-centric Approach
Conclusion
Chapter 3 RESPONSIBILITY: PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Intervention and Protection
Developments in R2P
Intervention, Protection and the War in Kosovo
What is a Responsibility to Prevent (R2Prevent)?
Protection and Prevention: Where to Now?
Conclusion
Chapter 4 STATE RESPONSIBILITY, HUMAN SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
The Relevance of International Law to State Behaviour
International Humanitarian Laws: Progression and Promises
The International Law Commission and State Responsibility
Conclusion
Chapter 5 PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC NORMS FOR PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Emerging Democracy Norms
Democracy Promotion and Human Security
R2P through Democratic Norms: The Big Three
Popular representation
Peace
Prosperity
Conclusion
Chapter 6 CASE STUDY LIBYA: MOVING PRINCIPLE INTO ACTION?
Libya, 2010–11: Revolution and Aftermath
The Great Powers’ Response to the Crisis in Libya
Lessons Learned: R2P and the Libyan Crisis
Conclusion
Chapter 7 CONCLUSION
Appendix I UN Resolution 1970
Appendix II UN Resolution 1973
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX