The responsibility to protect: A legal perspective.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780494212288
Description: The Responsibility to Protect has evolved with remarkable speed into a substantive norm in the international arena. This paper examines its evolution from a concept included in Boutros Boutros-Ghali's "Agenda For Peace" to its development by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty to its recent adoption by the United Nations General Assembly. The author locates the Responsibility to Protect within two trends in international law: the jus cogens prohibition against genocide and the more emergent push for greater accountability on the part of international organizations, including the United Nations. This latter trend is discussed in some detail as the author examines its institutional and legal framework. The author concludes that the Responsibility to Protect contributes significantly to both the prohibition against genocide and the call for greater accountability of international organizations.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1281.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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