In: Law, ethics and governance
1. Introduction / Charles Sampford -- 2. Falls the shadow : the responsibility to protect from theory to practice / Spencer Zifcak -- 3. R2P + POC (+ IHRL) = R2PC : the United nation's Security Council and the hybridisation of international protection principles / Hugh Breakey -- 4. R2P and the East Timor intervention / Clinton Fernandes -- 5. When is there sufficient information to decide if there is an R2P situation or not? From the intervention in Timor-Leste to the crisis in Sri Lanka / Paul Harpur -- 6. The responsibility to prevent : could the UN have prevented the atrocities in East Timor and Kosovo? / Hitoshi Nasu -- 7. Sovereignty and R2P ten years after East Timor and Kosovo : a failure to protect, the UN Human Rights Council and Darfur / Kevin Boreham -- 8. Legality and legitimacy : a dozen years after Goldstone / Charles Sampford -- 9. Refugees and military intervention in the name of the responsibility to protect / Angus Francis -- 10. The responsibility to protect : retrospect and prospect / Ramesh Thakur.
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In: Law, Ethics and Governance
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The responsibility to protect ('R2P') principle articulates the obligations of the international community to prevent conflict occurring, to intervene in conflicts, and to assist in rebuilding after conflicts. The doctrine is about protecting civilians in armed conflicts from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates with respect to the doctrine both before and after its adoption in 2005; contrasting state attitudes to in
In: Law, ethics and governance series
This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates about the doctrine of the responsibility to protect, both before and after its adoption in 2005, contrast state attitudes to international military intervention and analyse what takes place after intervention. It also discusses the ability of the Security Council to access reliable information and credible and transparent processes to enable it to make a determination on the occurrence of atrocities in a Member State
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