Responsibility to Protect: A Defence

by Alex J. Bellamy

2020-11-24 04:24:38

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community''s major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in Bosnia, Rwanda and more recently in Syria. This book argues that although it is far from... Read more
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community''s major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in Bosnia, Rwanda and more recently in Syria. This book argues that although it is far from perfect R2P offers the best chance we haveof building an international community that works to prevent these crimes and protect vulnerable populations. To make this argument, the book sets out the logic of R2P and its key ambitions, examines some of the critiques of the principle and its implementation in situations such as Libya, and setsout ways of overcoming some of the practical problems associated with moving this principle from words into deeds. Less

Book Details

File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages240
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date October 29, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198704119
Alex J. 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.w Edward C. Luck is Arnold A. Sal...

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