1st Edition
Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect
By Melissa Labonte
Copyright 2013
240 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In many cases concerned states responded, either through moral suasion; gentle or coercive diplomacy;... Read more
Introduction 1. Contemporary humanitarian intervention in theory and practice 2. Making a good argument and mobilizing political will 3. Human intervention in Somalia 4. Failure to intervene in Rwanda 5. Mixed intervention in Sierra Leone 6. Strategic framing, norms, and civilian protection: can R2P succeed where humanitarian intervention has failed?
Biography
Melissa Labonte is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University.
