1st Edition
Responsibility to Protect From Principle to Practice
384 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Julia Hoffmann is assistant professor of Media, Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.
