This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect. This second edition comes with an updated Introduction and a new Afterword.
This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P refers to the notion that the international community has a legal responsibility to protect civilians against the potential or ongoing occurrence of the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, large scale war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. R2P allows for intervention where the individual State is unable or unwilling to so protect its people or is in fact a perpetrator.
The book also addresses the controversial issue of whether intervention by States implementing R2P with or without the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council constitutes a State act of aggression or instead is legally justified and not an infringement on the offending States sovereign jurisdiction. The adverse impact on global peace and security of the failure to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes has put in stark relief the need to address anew the principle of responsibility to protect and the feasibility and wisdom of its application and this book is a significant contribution to that effort.
This second edition comes with an updated Introduction and a new Afterword, making it an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, human rights advocates, and students of law and international relations, seeking to deepen their understanding of a principle that is vital to safeguarding human rights in our world today.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.
Introduction
1. Enforcing the responsibility to protect through
solidarity measures
2. A critical reflection on the conceptual and practical
limitations of the responsibility to protect
3. Redefining the responsibility
to protect concept as a response to international crimes
4. R2P, Global
Governance, and the Syrian refugee crisis
5. The responsibility to engage:
cosmopolitan civic engagement and the spread of the Responsibility to Protect
Doctrine
6. To prevent future Kosovos and future Rwandas. A critical
constructivist view of the Responsibility to Protect
7. Responsibility to
protect and inter-state crises: why and how R2P applies to the case of Gaza
8. R2P and the Syrian crisis: when semantics becomes a matter of life or
death
9. Bahrain: an R2P blind spot?
10. The responsibility to protect, the
use of force and a permanent United Nations peace service
11. Protecting the
worlds most persecuted: the responsibility to protect and Burmas Rohingya
minority
12. Will R2P be ready when disaster strikes? The rationale of the
Responsibility to Protect in an environmental context
13. The responsibility
to protect and the lack of intervention in Syria: between the protection of
human rights and geopolitical strategies
14. Genocide, obligations erga
omnes, and the responsibility to protect: remarks on a complex convergence
15. The deterrent argument and the responsibility to protect
16. State
collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia
17.
Government failure, atrocity crimes and the role of the International
Criminal Court: why not Syria, but Libya
18. Responsibility to protect: dead,
dying, or thriving?
19. Protecting while not being responsible: the case of
Syria and responsibility to protect
20. Responsibility to protect and
peacetime atrocities: the case of North Korea Afterword
Sonja Grover is Professor in the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Ontario, Canada and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has published extensively in various areas of international law including 17 books with two additional forthcoming and scores of peer-reviewed journal articles in this field as well as several book chapters, and guest edited special issues of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has a special interest in childrens fundamental human rights under international law and in the protection of civilians.
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