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MASS ATROCITIES, THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

This book ambitiously weaves together history and politics to explain all of the major situations where mass atrocities have occurred, or been prevented, over the 15 years since the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit.

The author provides a history of human rights, mass atrocities and the principle of the R2P from the perspective of someone whose day job has been to work with the UN Security Council, various governments and civil society groups to help ensure that the international community does not fail those who face the threat of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity today. It examines the implementation of the controversial principle of R2P since 2011. Using case studies from Iraq, Syria, Myanmar and Libya, the book offers a unique perspective regarding how we make never again a living principle rather than a clich and how we end the politics of impunity, indifference and inaction once and for all.

It will be of special interest to scholars, students and policy makers working in the fields of international politics or concerned about human rights, atrocities, the United Nations and international justice in the world today.

Dr Simon Adams, PhD, is executive director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, a human rights organisation that provides policy advice and carries out advocacy with the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council regarding crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Dr Adams has worked extensively with civil society organisations in South Africa, Timor-Leste, Rwanda and elsewhere. He is the author of four books and regularly appears in the international media on matters related to the United Nations, human rights and conflict in the world today.

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Mass Atrocities, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Human Rights

If Not Now, When?

Simon Adams

MASS ATROCITIES,
THE RESPONSIBILITY
TO PROTECT AND
THE FUTURE OF
HUMAN RIGHTS

If Not Now, When?

Simon Adams

First published 2021

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CONTENTS

ASEAN	Association of Southeast Asian Nations
AU	African Union
CAR	Central African Republic
DA	Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
ECOWAS	Economic Community of West African States
FFM	Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar
FRELIMO	Frente de Libertao de Moambique
FSA	Free Syrian Army
GDP	Gross domestic product
GNC	General National Congress (Libya)
ICC	International Criminal Court
ICISS	International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
ICJ	International Court of Justice
ICTY	International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
IDP	Internally displaced person
IIIM	International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISF	Iraqi security forces
ISIL	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NTC	National Transitional Council (Libya)
OHCHR	Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
OPCW	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
PBC	UN Peacebuilding Commission
PMF	Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq)
PSC	AU Peace and Security Council
RENAMO	Resistncia Nacional Moambicana
RwP	Responsibility while Protecting
SNHR	Syrian Network for Human Rights
SOHR	Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
UN	United Nations
UNAMI	UN Assistance Mission for Iraq
UNESCO	UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNITAD	UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIL
UNSMIL	UN Support Mission in Libya
YPG	Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (Syria)

We believe that mass killings and ethnic cleansing are underway across Rakhine State, and that there may be genocidal intent on behalf of the authorities. That was my concluding comment at a briefing for members of the UN Security Council on the morning of 8 September 2017. The meeting took place in a building on Second Avenue, a short walk from UN headquarters and the Councils meeting room on the banks of New Yorks East River. From the expansive windows you could see the glistening skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan. The ambassadors and other diplomats who came to the briefing that morning drank coffee and ate muffins as they listened to our analysis and took notes.

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