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Documents and articles on the establishment of international R2P principles -- responsibility to protect -- "humanitarian interventions" etc.
Updated on 2012-05-17
Created on 2009-08-03
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Responsibility to Protect meets Counterinsurgency strategy
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The U.S. and its allies must change their mission to focus on protecting the Afghan people -- even if it means temporarily allowing the Taliban to operate relatively freely in sparsely populated areas, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in an interview Saturday.
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The question of humanitarian intervention has to be rethought thoroughly for our time. Today, it is nearly impossible to commit crimes against humanity in secret; efficient communication media will bring them to light immediately. We are more intimately engaged by them and with them than we were in the past. These acts that shock human conscience evoke the question of whether it is our responsibility to intervene, and what might be the moral justifications behind such intervention. By analyzing a range of examples, I want to discuss the question of humanitarian intervention in four regards: first, the nature of its occasions; second, the question of its preferred agents; third, the means how to meet the occasions; and fourth, the decision about the time to end the intervention.
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What are the limits of that sovereignty ? Does the United Nations have the right to intervene in a state ?
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In 1999, Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations , said that: "Surely no legal principle - not even sovereignty - can [ be allowed to shield the perpetrators
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Kofi Annan on humanitarian interventions, problems, questions, imperatives.
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The tragedy of East Timor, coming so soon after that of Kosovo, has focused attention once again on the need for timely intervention by the international community when death and suffering are being inflicted on large numbers of people, and when the state nominally in charge is unable or unwilling to stop it.
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intervention must be based on legitimate and universal principles
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Full text of John Stuart Mill's essay, "A Few Words on Non-Intervention."
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Core elements of R2P
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- Inherent in the concept of sovereignty is a state's responsibility to protect its populations; and
- If a population is suffering serious harm, and the state in question is unwilling or unable to halt or avert it, the responsibility to protect those people lies in the international community.
R2P Basic Principles
The principles and elements of The Responsibility to Protect doctrine were elaborated in the 2001 report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). Its basic principles are two-fold:
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Three core elements define what is the R2P doctrine. First, states and the international community have the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes, which requires action to address both the root causes and direct causes of internal conflict and other man-made crises putting populations at risk. Second, states and the international community have the responsibility to react during situations of compelling human need with appropriate measures, including the use of force. Finally, states and the international community have the responsibility to rebuild in the aftermath of atrocities.
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Key points from John Stuart Mill as forerunner of modern idea of R2P
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Indicators of a "failed state"?
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The term failed state is often used by political commentators and journalists to describe a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government. In order to make this definition more precise, the following attributes, proposed by the Fund for Peace, are often used to characterize a failed state:
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loss of physical control of its territory, or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force therein
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UN Security Council Resolution 1674 (2006)
Responsibility to Protect established-
Bearing in mind its primary responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security, and underlining the importance of taking measures aimed at conflict prevention and resolution,
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4. Reaffirms the provisions of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity;
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