Displacement, protection and responsibility : a case for safe areas

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dc.contributor.authorBIRNIE, Rutger Steven
dc.contributor.authorWELSH, Jennifer M.
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-18T10:12:47Z
dc.date.available2018-12-18T10:12:47Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionOnline Publication Date: 21st May 2018en
dc.description.abstractThis article makes the normative case for safe areas as a strategy of civilian protection in forced displacement crises. We start from the idea that the displaced—especially those who remain within the borders of their home state—are in a particularly precarious situation which can, in some circumstances, activate a remedial responsibility to provide protection on the part of the international community. We then argue that this responsibility extends beyond the provision of asylum to include efforts both to prevent displacement and to facilitate the return of displaced persons, and that safe areas may be an important tool to achieve these goals. However, we also note two major risks associated with safe areas which must be considered and mitigated: that they increase rather than decrease overall displacement, and that they diminish rather than enhance protection. We conclude by suggesting why and how the shared responsibility to protect through safe areas should be fairly distributed within the international community.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement No 340956 - IOW - The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict.
dc.identifier.citationGlobal responsibility to protect, 2018, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 332-361en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/1875984X-01003005
dc.identifier.endpage361en
dc.identifier.issn1875-9858
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.startpage332en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/60226
dc.identifier.volume10en
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherBrill Nijhoffen
dc.relationThe Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict
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dc.titleDisplacement, protection and responsibility : a case for safe areasen
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