Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice

✍ Scribed by André Nollkaemper (editor); Julia Hoffmann (editor)

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The tragic events in the 1990s in Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo, and the crisis in Libya in 2011 have triggered a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of the international community. It is now accepted that while individual states continue to bear the primary responsibility to protect their populations against genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes within their boundaries, the international community should step in when the state is unable or unwilling to provide such protection. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect, or RtoP, reflects this recognition, and provides the normative basis for involvement of the international community in cases of mass atrocities.

This thoughtful work is a major contribution towards clarifying what RtoP can offer, moving from principle to practice. It spans the disciplines of international law, international relations, and moral philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya
Part I The Emergence of the Responsibility to Protect
2 The Responsibility to Protect: The Journey
3 Reconstituting Humanity as Responsibility?
4 Canada’s Role in the Conceptual Impetus of the Responsibility to Protect and Current Contributions
5 The Responsibility to Protect within the Security Council’s Open Debates on the Protection of Civilians
Part II The Responsibility to Protect under International Law
6 The Scope of the Crimes Triggering the Responsibility to Protect
7 The Responsibility to Protect and Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Obligations of Third States
8 The Responsibility to Prevent
9 The Responsibility to Protect and the Obligations of States and Organisations under the Law of International Responsibility
10 Consensual Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
Part III Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
11 Has Humanitarian Intervention Become Part of International Law under the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine?
12 Assigning Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
13 The Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention
Part IV International Organisations and the Responsibility to Protect
14 The Responsibility to Protect and the Permanent Five
15 The African Union and the Responsibility to Protect
16 ASEAN Responses to the Responsibility to Protect
17 The Responsibility to Protect and Regional Organisations
Part V Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
18 A Responsibility to Protect or Preclude?
19 The Responsibility to Protect
20 The Responsibility to Protect Through the International Court of Justice
21 Taking Prevention of Genocide Seriously
22 Contextualising the Prevention of Genocide
23 Ending Our Age of Suffering
Concluding Observations
List of Contributors
General Index
Index of Treaties and Other International Documents