1st Edition

International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

Edited By Daniel Silander, Don Wallace Copyright 2015
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have to protect and prevent civilians from systematic mass atrocities and presents an analysis of... Read more

1. Introduction, Daniel Silander & Don Wallace 2. The United Nations, International Organizations and Responsibility to Protect, Don Wallace & Daniel Silander 3. Contextualizing Conflict: Trends and Challenges in the Syrian Civil War, Stephen Marr 4. ICC, Don Wallace 5. OPCW, John Janzekovic 6. OIC, Melinda Negrón-Gonzales 7. LAS, Alan Patterson & Craig McLean 8. GCC, Daniel Silander 9. NATO, Daniel Silander 10. G8, Niall Michelsen 11. OSCE, Martin Nilsson 12. Conclusion, Don Wallace & Daniel Silander

Biography

Daniel Silander is Associate Professor in political science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Don Wallace is Professor of criminal justice at the University of Central Missouri, USA.