ABSTRACT
This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm.
The volume analyzes this process at international, regional and local levels, and identifies an urgent need to progress from conceptual debates towards implementation in practice, in order to understand how to operationalize the preventive dimension of the R2P. It argues that R2P implementation necessarily entails the efforts of actors across governance levels, and that it is more effective when integrated into existing sites of practice aimed at strengthening human rights and accountability for populations in atrocity risk situations. The book addresses R2P implementation in the context of agendas such as resilience, gender, development cooperation, human rights, transitional justice, peacekeeping and civil-military relations. It details progress and challenges for implementation in the United Nations, regionally in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia, and through national atrocity prevention architectures. The volume provides readers with a breadth of understanding in terms of both the development and current status of the R2P norm, and practical tools for advancing its implementation.
This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, Human Rights, Peace Studies, and International Relations in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
R2P as an atrocity-prevention framework
part I|51 pages
National implementation mechanisms
part II|52 pages
Regional implementation mechanisms
chapter 4|20 pages
ASEAN regionalism and capacity-building for atrocities prevention
part III|38 pages
Atrocity prevention
chapter 8|21 pages
Atrocity prevention in practice
part IV|36 pages
International legal accountability
chapter 10|16 pages
Linking the past and the present
part V|55 pages
Peacekeeping, civil–military assistance, and stabilization