Responsibility to Protect
From Principle to Practice
Published on 1. October 2025
384 pages
978-1-040-80054-6 (ISBN)
Description
The tragic events in the 1990s in Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo, and the crisis in Libya in 2011 have triggered a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of the international community. It is now accepted that while individual states continue to bear the primary responsibility to protect their populations against genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes within their boundaries, the international community should step in when the state is unable or unwilling to provide such protection. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect, or RtoP, reflects this recognition, and provides the normative basis for involvement of the international community in cases of mass atrocities. This thoughtful work is a major contribution towards clarifying what RtoP can offer, moving from principle to practice. It spans the disciplines of international law, international relations, and moral philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,01 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-80054-6 (9781040800546)
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Persons
Julia Hoffmann is assistant professor of Media, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Content
Preface, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1 The 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya, Part I The Emergence of the Responsibility to Protect, Part II The Responsibility to Protect under International Law, Part III Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect, Part IV International Organisations and the Responsibility to Protect, Part V Implementing the Responsibility to Protect, Concluding Observations, List of Contributors, General Index, Index of Treaties and Other International Documents
