dc.contributor.author | WELSH, Jennifer M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-27T14:37:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-27T14:37:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of arts & sciences, 2016, Vol. 145, No. 4, pp. 75-87 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0011-5266 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1548-6192 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/45492 | |
dc.description | Posted Online September 22, 2016 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Despite the commitment made by all heads of state attending the 2005 World Summit to uphold the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P), atrocity crimes continue to be committed by states and nonstate actors. This essay argues that assessments of R2P’s effectiveness too often overlook the political nature of the principle–with the strengths and weaknesses that this status entails–and apply rigid standards of success that both underestimate its contribution to building capacity to prevent and respond to atrocity crimes and overemphasize the role of military intervention. It also suggests that R2P is best understood as a “duty of conduct” to identify when atrocity crimes are being committed and to deliberate on the best form of collective response. The cases of Libya and Syria have nonetheless raised fundamental questions about the prospect of catalyzing international efforts to protect populations, particularly when there is disagreement over the costs and benefits of a coercive response. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The 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.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | MIT Press | en |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/340956/EU | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of arts & sciences | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [IOW] | en |
dc.title | The responsibility to protect after Libya & Syria | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1162/DAED_a_00413 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 145 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 75 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 87 | en |
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dc.identifier.issue | 4 | en |