Responsibility to Protect, Second Edition

Perspectives on the Concept’s Meaning, Proper Application and Value

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvSonja Grover

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This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P refers to the notion that the international community has a legal responsibility to protect civilians against the potential or ongoing occurrence of the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, large scale war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. R2P allows for intervention where the individual State is unable or unwilling to so protect its people or is in fact a perpetrator.The book also addresses the controversial issue of whether intervention by States implementing R2P with or without the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council constitutes a State act of aggression or instead is legally justified and not an infringement on the offending State’s sovereign jurisdiction. The adverse impact on global peace and security of the failure to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes has put in stark relief the need to address anew the principle of ‘responsibility to protect’ and the feasibility and wisdom of its application and this book is a significant contribution to that effort.This second edition comes with an updated Introduction and a new Afterword, making it an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, human rights advocates, and students of law and international relations, seeking to deepen their understanding of a principle that is vital to safeguarding human rights in our world today.This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-20
Mått174 x 246 x 18 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor318
Upplaga2
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032977607

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Sonja Grover is Professor in the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Ontario, Canada and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has published extensively in various areas of international law including 17 books with two additional forthcoming and scores of peer-reviewed journal articles in this field as well as several book chapters, and guest edited special issues of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has a special interest in children’s fundamental human rights under international law and in the protection of civilians.

Introduction 1. Enforcing the responsibility to protect through solidarity measures 2. A critical reflection on the conceptual and practical limitations of the responsibility to protect 3. Redefining the responsibility to protect concept as a response to international crimes 4. R2P, Global Governance, and the Syrian refugee crisis 5. The responsibility to engage: cosmopolitan civic engagement and the spread of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine 6. ‘To prevent future Kosovos and future Rwandas.’ A critical constructivist view of the Responsibility to Protect 7. Responsibility to protect and inter-state crises: why and how R2P applies to the case of Gaza 8. R2P and the Syrian crisis: when semantics becomes a matter of life or death 9. Bahrain: an R2P blind spot? 10. The responsibility to protect, the use of force and a permanent United Nations peace service 11. Protecting the world’s most persecuted: the responsibility to protect and Burma’s Rohingya minority 12. Will R2P be ready when disaster strikes? – The rationale of the Responsibility to Protect in an environmental context 13. The responsibility to protect and the lack of intervention in Syria: between the protection of human rights and geopolitical strategies 14. Genocide, obligations erga omnes, and the responsibility to protect: remarks on a complex convergence 15. The ‘deterrent argument’ and the responsibility to protect 16. State collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia 17. Government failure, atrocity crimes and the role of the International Criminal Court: why not Syria, but Libya 18. Responsibility to protect: dead, dying, or thriving? 19. Protecting while not being responsible: the case of Syria and responsibility to protect 20. Responsibility to protect and ‘peacetime atrocities’: the case of North Korea Afterword

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