Responsibility to Protect - 2[-]Table of Contents - 6[-]Preface - 10[-]List of Abbreviations - 12[-]Introduction - 14[-]1 The 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya A Success Story for the Responsibility to Protect? - 28[-]Part I The Emergence of the Responsibility to Protect - 38[-] 2 The Responsibility to Protect: The Journey - 40[-] 3 Reconstituting Humanity as Responsibility?The 'Turn to History' in International Law and the Responsibility to Protect - 48[-] 4 Canada's Role in the Conceptual Impetus of the Responsibility to Protect and Current Contributions - 62[-] 5 The Responsibility to Protect within the Security Council's Open Debates on the Protection of Civilians A Growing Culture of Protection - 72[-]Part II The Responsibility to Protect under International Law - 84[-] 6 The Scope of the Crimes Triggering the Responsibility to Protect - 86[-] 7 The Responsibility to Protect and Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Obligations of Third States - 94[-] 8 The Responsibility to Prevent On the Assumed Legal Nature of Responsibility to Protect and its Relationship with Conflict Prevention - 112[-] 9 The Responsibility to Protect and the Obligations of States and Organisationsunder the Law of International Responsibility - 126[-] 10 Consensual Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Responsibility to Protect's Place within the Legal Framework of Consensual Intervention in Internal Armed Conflict - 140[-]Part III Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect - 156[-] 11 Has Humanitarian Intervention Become Part of International Law under the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine? - 158[-] 12 Assigning Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect - 174[-] 13 The Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention - 186[-]Part IV International Organisations and the Responsibility to Protect - 198[-] 14 The Responsibility to Protect and the Permanent Five The Obligation to Give Reasons for a Veto - 200[-] 15 The African Union and the Responsibility to Protect Principles and Limitations - 214[-] 16 ASEAN Responses to the Responsibility to Protect Challenges, Opportunities and Constraints - 238[-]Part V Implementing the Responsibility to Protect - 272[-] 18 A Responsibility to Protect or Preclude?Examining the Beneficiaries of the Responsibility to Protect - 274[-] 19 The Responsibility to Protect Unilateral Non-Forcible Measures and International Law - 292[-] 20 The Responsibility to Protect Through the International Court of Justice - 306[-] 21 Taking Prevention of Genocide Seriously Media Incitement to Genocide Viewed in the Light of the Responsibility to Protect - 320[-] 22 Contextualising the Prevention of Genocide - 338[-] 23 Ending Our Age of Suffering A Plan to End Genocide - 348[-]Concluding Observations - 356[-]List of Contributors - 374[-]General Index - 380[-]Index of Treaties and Other International Documents - 384De tragische gebeurtenissen in Rwanda, Srebrenica en Kosovo hebben geleid tot een herbezinning over de rol en verantwoordelijkheid van de internationale gemeenschap. In het beginsel Responsibility to Protect (R2P), dat in 2005 door de wereldleiders werd omarmd, hebben individuele staten nog steeds de primaire verantwoordelijkheid voor de bescherming van hun inwoners. Maar als ze die verantwoordelijkheid niet kunnen of willen nemen, komt de verantwoordelijkheid bij de internationale gemeenschap te liggen. R2P heeft de ambitie om herhaling van Rwanda Srebrenica en Kosovo te voorkomen, maar er bestaat nog grote onduidelijkheid over inhoud en potentieel van dit beginsel. Deze bundel verkent R2P als moreel, politiek en juridisch beginsel en onderzoekt hoe de Verenigde Naties, de Europese Unie, individuele staten en ngo's R2P kunnen gebruiken om ernstige mensenrechtenschendingen te voorkomen.De tragische gebeurtenissen in Rwanda, Srebrenica en Kosovo hebben geleid tot een herbezinning over de rol en verantwoordelijkheid van de internationale gemeenschap. In het beginsel Responsibility to Protect (R2P), dat in 2005 door de wereldleiders werd omarmd, hebben individuele staten nog steeds de primaire verantwoordelijkheid voor de beschermin