Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University (NSU), Bangladesh. His teaching and research interests include international relations after 1945, international comparative studies of genocide and mass atrocities, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and humanitarian intervention, African studies and Africa-China relations, Chinese foreign policy and Hong Kong politics.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Protection of civilians and the Responsibility to Protect Chapter 3: International Criminal Justice and the Responsibility to PunishChapter 4: Protection and Punishment in responding to mass atrocitiesChapter 5: Northern UgandaChapter 6: DarfurChapter 7 KenyaChapter 8: Conclusion

"Only thirty years ago issues about protecting civilians caught up in internal wars (including those waged by governments against their own people) and prosecuting war criminals would have never received much of an attention. The need for a deeper understanding of this matter was an afterthought. This volume by Raymond Kwun Sun Lau is an illustration of how far we have come. The author is among the emerging scholars in this field today. He has previously made outstanding contributions in expanding our knowledge with his comparative insight in US policy towards Liberia and West Africa. In this book, Dr. Lau brilliantly analyzes the relationship between R2P and the ICC from a theoretical, comparative and historical perspective, with the help of specific case studies from Uganda, Kenya and Darfur, Sudan. This book should be of great interest to policymakers and peace-keepers as well as graduate students and researchers in the field of International Relations and African Studies." – Seifudein Adem, Professor of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan