What can be done to combat genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other
crimes against humanity? Why aren't current measures more
effective? Is there hope for the future? These and other pressing
questions surrounding human security are addressed head-on in this
provocative and all-too-timely book.
Millions of people, particularly in Africa, face daily the
prospect of death at the hands of state or state-linked forces.
Although officially both the United Nations and the African Union
have adopted "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) principles,
atrocities continue. The tenets of R2P, recently cited in a UN
Outcomes Document, make it clear that states have a primary
responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes,
ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. When states cannot
--or will not --protect their citizens, however, the international
community must step into the breach.
Why have efforts to stop horrific state-sanctioned crimes seen
only limited success, despite widespread support of R2P? As this
enlightening volume explains and illustrates, converting a norm
into effective preventive measures remains difficult. The
contributors examine the legal framework to inhibit war crimes, use
of the emerging R2P norm, the role of the International Criminal
Court, and new technologically sophisticated methods to gather
early warnings of likely atrocity outbreaks. Together they show how
mass atrocities may be anticipated, how they may be prevented, and
when necessary, how they may be prosecuted.
Contributors include Claire Applegarth (Harvard Kennedy School),
Andrew Block (Harvard Kennedy School), Frank Chalk (Montreal
Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia
University), David M. Crane (Syracuse University College of Law),
Richard J. Goldstone (Constitutional Court of South Africa; UN
International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and
Rwanda), Don Hubert (University of Ottawa; Global Center for the
Responsibility to Protect, City University of New York), Sarah
Kreps (Cornell University), Dan Kuwali (Malawi Defence Force),
Jennifer Leaning (Harvard Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health
and Human Rights), Edward C. Luck (Columbia University;
International Peace Institute), Sarah Sewall (Harvard Kennedy
School)
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