International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect
This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and actual capability international institutions have to protect and prevent civilians from systematic mass atrocities and presents an analysis of several prominent international organizations (IOs). Each chapter focuses on a specific organization and explores its formal responsibilities and how these pertain to the obligations of the R2P. Existing capabilities and actual abilities to address the challenges of R2P are analyzed by looking at these issues before, during, and after the occurrence of the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
With the UN not fully engaged in the Syrian conflict, the systematic human rights abuses have engendered greater attention on other organizations. This volume argues that if the UN Security Councils inactions result in an abdication of responsibilities under the UN Charter, there should not only be a discussion of how the UN must alter its approach, but also an examination of whether there are alternative R2P paths for other IOs to take in the name of international peace and human security.
This book will be of much interest to students of R2P, humanitarian intervention, international organizations, Middle Eastern politics and security studies.
Daniel Silander is Associate Professor in political science at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
Don Wallace is Professor of criminal justice at the University of Central Missouri, USA.
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
Series Editors:
Alex J. Bellamy
Griffith University
Sara E. Davies
Griffith University
and
Monica Serrano
The City University of New York
The aim of this book series is to gather the best new thinking about the Responsibility to Protect into a core set of volumes that provides a definitive account of the principle, its implementation, and its role in crises, that reflects a plurality of views and regional perspectives.
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
From words to deeds
Alex J. Bellamy
The Responsibility to Protect
Norms, laws and international politics
Ramesh Thakur
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
Security and human rights
Cristina G. Badescu
Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect
Politics, ethnicity, genocide
Damien Kingsbury
International Responsibility and
Grave Humanitarian Crises
Collective provision for human security
Hannes Peltonen
Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect
A provisional duty
Heather M. Roff
UN Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect
Annie Herro
International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect
The humanitarian crisis in Syria
Edited by Daniel Silander and Don Wallace
Moral Responsibility, Statecraft, and Humanitarian Intervention
The US response to Rwanda, Darfur, and Libya
Cathinka Vik
International Organizations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect
The humanitarian crisis in Syria
Edited by Daniel Silander and Don Wallace
First published 2015
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International organizations and the implementation of the responsibility to protect : the humanitarian crisis in Syria / edited by Daniel Silander and Don Wallace.
pages cm. (Global politics and the responsibility to protect)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-138-89126-5 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-315-70964-2 (ebook : alk. paper)
1. International agenciesSyria. 2. Humanitarian assistanceSyria.
I. Silander, Daniel, 1972 II. Wallace, Don, 1932
JZ5335.I68 2015
956.91042dc23
2014046575
ISBN: 978-1-138-89126-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-70964-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear
To the parents in humanitarian crises, subject to incomprehensible loss
Contents
DANIEL SILANDER AND DON WALLACE
DON WALLACE AND DANIEL SILANDER
STEPHEN MARR
DON WALLACE
JOHN JANZEKOVIC
MELINDA NEGRN-GONZALES
ALAN PATTERSON AND CRAIG McLEAN
DANIEL SILANDER
DANIEL SILANDER
NIALL MICHELSEN
MARTIN NILSSON
DON WALLACE AND DANIEL SILANDER
John Janzekovic is a lecturer of politics and international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of the Sunshine Coast, focusing on international politics, international law and human security.
Stephen Marr is a senior lecturer of peace and conflict studies at Malm University, Sweden. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida, specializing in comparative politics, political theory and African studies.
Craig McLean is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Northumbria, UK. He earned a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Newcastle. His main interests are in the areas of European politics, the European Union and homeland security from a transatlantic perspective.
Niall Guy Michelsen is an associate professor of political science and public affairs and the director of the international studies BA at Western Carolina University in the US. He earned a PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Melinda Negrn-Gonzales is an assistant professor and program coordinator of the Politics and Society Program at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester. She was awarded a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida. One focus of her research explores the diffusion and impact of international norms, especially involving the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).