Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9085550556 ISBN 13: 9789085550556

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The tragic events during the 1990s in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo, as well as the recent crisis in Libya, have triggered a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of the international community in regard to mass atrocities. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect maintains that although individual nations bear the brunt of the responsibility to guard against genocide, ethnic cleaning, and crimes against humanity within their boundaries, the international community must step in when the state is unable or unwilling to provide such protection. This book assesses to what extent the principle is grounded in international law and examines how international institutions, including the United Nations, can contribute to the aim of protecting victims in cases of mass atrocities.

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About the Author

Julia Hoffmann is assistant professor of media, peace and conflict at the University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica. André Nollkaemper is professor of public international law in the Amsterdam Center for International Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9085550556
• ISBN 13: 9789085550556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Hoffmann Julia, Nollkaemper André