Title: The Responsibility to Protect
Description: The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community's major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in Bosnia, Rwanda and more recently in Syria. This book argues that although it is far from perfect R2P offers the best chance we have of building an international community that works to prevent these crimes and protect vulnerable populations. To make this argument, the book sets out the logic of R2P and its key ambitions, examines some of the critiques of the principle and its implementation in situations such as Libya, and sets out ways of overcoming some of the practical problems associated with moving this principle from words into deeds.
Subjects: International law, Security, international, Atrocities, Intervention (international law), Crimes de guerre, Interventions étrangères, Droit d'ingérence, Responsibility to protect (International law), International Security, Sécurité internationale, Protection civile, Crimes contre l'humanité, Humanitarian intervention, Prevention, Génocide, Humanitarianism, Peace, International relations, moral and ethical aspects, International obligations, Liability (law), International relations, Moral and ethical aspects, Peace-building, International cooperation, Genocide intervention, Sovereignty, Peace-building--international cooperation, Jz6369 .b45x 2009, 341.584