This book presents the views of various international law and human
rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application,
value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to
Protect . R2P refers to the notion that the international community
has a legal responsibility to protect civilians against the
potential or ongoing occurrence of the mass atrocity crimes of
genocide, large scale war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes
against humanity. R2P allows for intervention where the individual
State is unable or unwilling to so protect its people or is in fact
a perpetrator. The book addresses also the controversial issue of
whether intervention by States implementing R2P with or without the
endorsement of the United Nations Security Council constitutes a
State act of aggression or instead is legally justified and not an
infringement on the offending State's sovereign jurisdiction. The
adverse impact on global peace and security of the failure to
protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes has put in stark relief
the need to address anew the principle of 'responsibility to
protect' and the feasibility and wisdom of its application and this
book is a significant contribution to that effort. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the International
Journal of Human Rights.
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