Reassessing the responsibility to protect : conceptual and operational challenges /: conceptual and operational challenges. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brett R. O'Bannon.
• Editors: O'Bannon, Brett R
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ontological insecurity and the origins of R2P; 1 The responsibility to protect and the limits of international authority; 2 Understanding the gap between the promise and the reality of 'the responsibility to protect'; 3 The rise and fall (and supposed rise again) of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a norm of international law: R2P in the human rights landscape; 4 Africa: Is there a state? Implications of statelessness for a state-centric human protection norm. 5 The responsibility to protect in Congo: The failure of grassroots prevention6 United Nations action in Sri Lanka and the responsibility to protect; 7 The unintended consequences of UN peacekeeping in post-war South Sudan: Why everyone wants a uniform; 8 Crying out for action: Do the dead say anything about the responsibility to protect?; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 327.117; Humanitarian intervention; Humanitarian intervention -- Africa; Humanitarian intervention; Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134695898; 1134695896
• Related ISBNs: 9781134695829; 9781134695966
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