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The responsibility to protect: its rise and demise
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Abstract The doctrine of Responsibility to protect was developed in order to address the issue of mass atrocities, which were brought about by intrastate and ethnic conflicts as well as oppressive regimes throughout the world. It embraced the idea of the immunity of human rights, the moral need to intervene ... view more
The doctrine of Responsibility to protect was developed in order to address the issue of mass atrocities, which were brought about by intrastate and ethnic conflicts as well as oppressive regimes throughout the world. It embraced the idea of the immunity of human rights, the moral need to intervene in cases that shock human conscience, and posed a challenge to the conventional understanding of sovereignty by redefining it as “responsibility”. However, this essay argues that the controversial implementation of the doctrine in Libya and its non-implementation in the case of Syria despite widespread humanitarian crisis in terms of civilian casualties and massive population displacement amount to a failure.... view less
Keywords
humanitarian intervention; Libya; Syria; UN Security Council; sovereignty; humanitarian aid; UNO; international agreement; human rights violation; strategy; intervention
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 74-82
Journal
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2 (2017) 3
ISSN
1857-9760
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution