The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect

by Bellamy, Alex; Dunne, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780198753841
• ISBN10: 0198753845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-08-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale - have occurred even during the post 1945 period when the United Nations was built to save us all from the scourge of genocide. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities. R2P maintains that collective action should be taken by members of the United Nations to prevent or halt such gross violations of basic human rights.

This Handbook, containing contributions from leading theorists, and practitioners (including former foreign ministers and special advisors), examines the progress that has been made in the last 10 years; it also looks forward to likely developments in the next decade.

Author Biography

Alex Bellamy is Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He currently serves as Secretary of the High Level Advisory Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia, chaired by Dr. Surin Pitsuwan. Recent books include Responsibility to Protect: A Defense (OUP, 2015) and Massacres and Morality (OUP, 2012).


Tim Dunne is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at The University of Queensland, where he is also a Senior Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Tim is a widely published author, including most recently the co-edited book Liberal World Orders (Oxford: OUP/British Academy 2013). He is currently completing a co-edited book for publication with Oxford in 2016, on The Globalisation of International Society.

Table of Contents

Preface, Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. R2P in Theory and Practice, Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne
PART II: HISTORY
2. Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth-Century, Davide Rodogno
3. The Genocide Convention & Cold War Humanitarian Intervention, Tim Dunne and Eglantine Staunton
4. The Turbulent 1990's: R2P Precedents and Prospects, Thomas G. Weiss
5. Sovereignty as Responsibility: Building Block for R2P, Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
6. Rwanda, Kosovo and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Ramesh Thakur
7. The Genesis of R2P: Kofi Annan's Intervention Dilemma, Charles Cater and David Malone
PART III: THEORY
8. R2P's Status as a Norm, Melissa Labonte
9. Sovereignty, Luke Glanville
10. Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect, Toni Erskine
11. R2P and International Law: A Paradigm Shift?, Nigel Rodley
12. How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West?, Faith Mabera and Yolanda Spies
The Responsibility Not to Veto: A Responsibility too far?, Justin Morris and Nicholas Wheeler
PART IV: UN ORDER
14. UN Security Council, Alex Bellamy
15. UN General Assembly, Megan Schmidt
16. Getting There, Being There: The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser, Edward Luck
17. UN Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ekkehard Strauss
18. The Role of Regional Organisations: A Responsibility Gap?, David Carment, Sean Winchester, and Joe Landry
PART V: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
19. The African Union, Kwesi Aning and Frank Okyere
20. Asia Pacific and South Asia, Sarah Teitt
21. Europe and the European Union, Chiara de Franco, Christoph Meyer, and Karen E. Smith
22. Russia, Ekatarina Stepanova
23. Latin America, Monica Serrano
24. Middle East and North Africa, Fateh Azzam and Coralie Hindawi
25. United States, Bruce Jentleson
PART VI: CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
26. Gender, Sara Davies
27. The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P, Roland Paris
28. The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and Peacekeeping Operations, Paul Williams
29. Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War: Complementarity and Tension Between R2P and Humanitarian Action, Hugo Slim
30. The Use of Force, Taylor Seybolt
31. Conflict Prevention and the R2P, Ruben Reike
32. Refugees and Displaced People, Phil Orchard
33. Responsibility while Protecting, Oliver Stuenkel
34. The International Criminal Court, Jason Ralph
35. The use of UN sanctions to address mass atrocities, Jeremy Farrall
36. The Politics of Global Humanitarianism: The R2P before and after Libya, Michael Doyle
PART VII: CASES
37. Cote d'Ivoire, Charles Hunt
38. Darfur, Jess Gifkins
39. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Arthur Boutellis
40. Kenya, Serena Sharma
41. Libya, Simon Adams
42. Mali, John Karlsrud
43. Myanmar, Jurgen Haacke
44. North Korea, Boris Kondoch
45. Somalia, Walter Lotze
46. South Sudan, Alison Giffen
47. Sri Lanka, Kim Nackers
48. Syria, Bessma Momani and Tanzeel Hakak
PART VIII: FACING THE FUTURE
49. R2P: The Next Ten Years, Gareth Evans
50. The State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China's Shaping of the Trajectory of the R2P, Rosemary Foot
51. Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, Kishore Mabubhani
52. Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security: R2P in the Next Ten Years, Lloyd Axworthy
53. R2P's Next Ten Years: Deepening and Extending the Consensus, Jennifer Welsh