1st Edition
Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide
By Damien Kingsbury
Copyright 2012
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved and, ultimately, why the international community failed to act.
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Introduction 1. The Meaning and Application of R2P 2. Politics and Ethnicity 3. The War in Sri Lanka 4. Cultural Dominance, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity 5. Sri Lanka and International Law 6. Opposition to R2P 7. Geo-Strategic Factors, R2P and Sri Lanka 8. Conclusion
Biography
Damien Kingsbury is Professor at the School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne. He is the author and editor of a number of books and numerous journal articles on political and security matters.






