Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South

by Mani; Rama

• ISBN13: 9780415781855
• ISBN10: 041578185X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. It seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes. The contributors to this collection analyze the responsibility to protect through multiple disciplines#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;philosophy, religion and spirituality, anthropology, and aesthetics in addition to international relations and law#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;to explore what light alternative perspectives outside of political science and international relations shed upon this emerging norm. In each case, the disciplinary analysis emanates from the global South and from scholars located within countries that experienced violent political upheaval. Hence, they draw upon not only theory but also the first-hand experience with conscience-shocking crimes. Their retrospective and prospective analyses could and should help shape the future implementation of R2P in accordance with insights from vastly different contexts.

Author Biography

Rama Mani directs the project on Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in Southern Cultures. She is a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and a councilor of the World Future Council, Hamburg. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. xv
Foreword by the series editor	p. xviii
Foreword	p. xx
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: grounding responsibility and protection in culture and politics	p. 1
Reflections in religion, philosophy, and art	p. 23
Religion, spirituality, and R2P in a global village	p. 25
Philosophy, ethics, and R2P	p. 64
Creation amidst destruction: Southern aesthetics and R2P	p. 96
Country cases	p. 131
Rwanda: culture against machetes	p. 133
Interventions in Kosova: un/welcomed guests?	p. 167
Atrocities prevented in Nepal? The impact of civic and cultural institutions	p. 195
Conclusion: the contribution of cultural perspectives to R2P	p. 224
Index	p. 247
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