Responsibility to protect : from principle to practice / edited by Julia Hoffmann and André Nollkaemper ; assistant editor, Isabelle Swerissen.

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 prote...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Amsterdam Center for International Law
Other Authors: Hoffmann, Julia, 1980-
Nollkaemper, André
Swerissen, Isabelle
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Pallas Publications, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Responsibility to protect (International law) > Congresses.
Humanitarian intervention > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The 2007-08 post-election crisis in Kenya : a success story for the responsibility to protect? / Serena K. Sharma
  • Pt. I. The emergence of the responsibility to protect
  • The responsibility to protect : the journey / Edward C. Luck
  • Reconstituting humanity as responsibility? : the "turn to history" in international law and the responsibility to protect / Mark Swatek-Evenstein
  • Canada's role in the conceptual impetus of the responsibility to protect and current contributions / Marc Alexander C. Gionet
  • The responsibility to protect within the Security Council's open debates on the protection of civilians : a growing culture of protection / Ludovica Poli
  • Pt. II. The responsibility to protect under international law
  • The scope of crimes triggering the responsibility to protect / Jann K. Kleffner
  • The responsibility to protect and Common Article I of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Obligations of Third States / Hanna Brollowski
  • The responsibility to prevent : on assumed legal nature of responsibility to protect and its relationship with conflict prevention / Hanne Cuykens and Phililp De Man
  • The responsibility to protect and obligations of states and organisations under the law of international responsibility / Nina H.B. Jørgensen
  • Consensual intervention and the responsibility to protect : responsibility to protect's place within the legal framework of consensual intervention in internal armed conflict / Eliav Lieblich
  • Pt. III. Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
  • Has humanitarian intervention become part of international law under the responsibility to protect doctrine? / Diana Amnéus
  • Assigning humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect / James Pattison
  • The responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention / Jennifer M. Welsh
  • Pt. IV. International orgiansations and the responsibility to protect
  • The responsibility to protect and the permanent five : the obligation to give reasons for a veto / Anne Peters
  • The African Union and responsibility to protect : principles and limitations / Ademola Abass
  • ASEAN responses to the responsibility to protect : challenges, opportunities and constraints / Noel M. Morada
  • The responsibility to protect and regional organisations : where does the European Union stand? / Jan Wouters, Philip De Man and Marie Vincent
  • Pt. V. Implementating theresponsibility to protect
  • A responsibility to protect or preclude? : examining the beneficiaries of the responsibility to protect / Jennifer D. Halbert
  • The responsibility to protect : unilateral non-forcible measures and international law / Veronika Bílková
  • The responsibility to protect through the International Court of Justice / Gentian Zyberi
  • Taking prevention of genocide seriously : media incitement to genocide viewed in the light of the responsibility to protect / Julia Hoffmann and Amaka Okany
  • Contextualising the prevention of genocide / Francis M. Deng
  • Ending our age of suffering : a plan to end genocide / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.