ABSTRACT
It is more than a decade since the release of the Reports of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (IICK or the Goldstone Commission) and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), both of which sought to deal with some of the controversies generated by the NATO-Serbian war over Kosovo and ‘humanitarian’ intervention more generally. Each came up with three-word catch phrases – Goldstone with its conclusion that the Kosovo war was ‘illegal but legitimate’ (INL), ICISS with the principle ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P). Both terms have persisted – though R2P has had a better decade with its beatification at the 2005 World Summit and a reference to it in March 2011 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1973 (though with reference to the Libyan Government’s responsibility).1
