2nd Edition
The Responsibility to Protect, Second Edition Perspectives on the Concept’s Meaning, Proper Application and Value
Introduction
Sonja Grover
1. Enforcing the responsibility to protect through solidarity measures
Jessica Almqvist
2. A critical reflection on the conceptual and practical limitations of the responsibility to protect
Joseph Besigye Bazirake and Paul Bukuluki
3. Redefining the responsibility to protect concept as a response to international crimes
Auriane Botte
4. R2P, Global Governance, and the Syrian refugee crisis
Alise Coen
5. The responsibility to engage: cosmopolitan civic engagement and the spread of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine
David William Gethings
6. ‘To prevent future Kosovos and future Rwandas.’ A critical constructivist view of the Responsibility to Protect
Sassan Gholiagha
7. Responsibility to protect and inter-state crises: why and how R2P applies to the case of Gaza
Pinar Gözen Ercan
8. R2P and the Syrian crisis: when semantics becomes a matter of life or death
Sonja Grover
9. Bahrain: an R2P blind spot?
Aidan Hehir
10. The responsibility to protect, the use of force and a permanent United Nations peace service
Annie Herro
11. Protecting the world’s most persecuted: the responsibility to protect and Burma’s Rohingya minority
Lindsey N. Kingston
12. Will R2P be ready when disaster strikes? – The rationale of the Responsibility to Protect in an environmental context
Konstantin Kleine
13. The responsibility to protect and the lack of intervention in Syria: between the protection of human rights and geopolitical strategies
Gabriele Lombardo
14. Genocide, obligations erga omnes, and the responsibility to protect: remarks on a complex convergence
Marco Longobardo
15. The ‘deterrent argument’ and the responsibility to protect
Conall Mallory and Stuart Wallace
16. State collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia
Oscar Gakuo Mwangi
17. Government failure, atrocity crimes and the role of the International Criminal Court: why not Syria, but Libya
Hovhannes Nikoghosyan
18. Responsibility to protect: dead, dying, or thriving?
Maggie Powers
19. Protecting while not being responsible: the case of Syria and responsibility to protect
Heidarali Teimouri
20. Responsibility to protect and ‘peacetime atrocities’: the case of North Korea
Serena Timmoneri
Afterword
Sonja Grover
Biography
Sonja Grover is Professor in the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Ontario, Canada and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has published extensively in various areas of international law including 17 books with two additional forthcoming and scores of peer-reviewed journal articles in this field as well as several book chapters, and guest edited special issues of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has a special interest in children’s fundamental human rights under international law and in the protection of civilians.
