1st Edition
The Responsibility to Protect in International Law Philosophical Investigations
By Natalie Oman
Copyright 2020
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contrasts the influential version of the principle introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 with subsequent interpretations of the responsibility to protect advocated by the United Nations through its human... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1
A Philosophical Underpinning for a State’s "Responsibility to Protect"
Chapter 2
Intercultural Judgement and the Role of a Sensus Communis
Chapter 3
Human Security and Hannah Arendt’s "Right to Have Rights"
Chapter 4
The Scope of the "Responsibility to Prevent" Atrocity Crimes: A Remit for Intervention?
Chapter 5
The International Legal Character of the Responsibility to Protect
Conclusion
Distant Strangers and Our Responsibility to Protect
Biography
Natalie Oman is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She has published in the areas of international law and human rights, philosophy of law, indigenous rights, and ethics.
