The responsibility to protect
Subtitle: ending mass atrocity crimes once and for all
By: Gareth Evans.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780815725046
Subjects: Atrocities -- Prevention; Genocide -- Prevention
Description: "Explains Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a new international norm to protect the peoples of the world. With real-world examples, current events analysis, and assessments from personal experience, shows how R2P is better equipped to end mass atrocity crimes than is "the right to intervene" or other "humanitarian intervention" doctrines"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem : the recurring nightmare of mass atrocities; title: The solution : from "the right to intervene" to "the responsibility to protect"; title: The scope and limits of the responsibility to protect; title: Before the crisis : the responsibility to prevent; title: During the crisis : the responsibility to react; title: Responding to crises : when is it right to fight?; title: After the crisis : the responsibility to rebuild; title: Institutional preparedness : the actors.