The responsibility to protect : perspectives on the concept's meaning, proper application and value / edited by Sonja Grover.

"The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Human Rights, volume 19, issue 8 (December 2015)"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Enforcing the responsibility to protect through solidarity measures / Jessica Almqvist -- Critical reflection on the conceptual and practical limitations of the responsibility to protect / Joseph Besigye Bazirake and Paul Bukuluki -- Redefining the responsibility to protect concept as a response to international crimes / Auriane botte -- R2P, Global Governance, and the Syrian refugee crisis / Alise Coen -- Responsibility to engage : cosmopolitan civic engagement and the spread of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine / David william Gethings -- "To prevent future Kosovos and future Rwandas" : a critical constructivist view of the Responsibility to Protect / sassan Gholiagha -- Responsibility to protect and inter-state crises : why and how R2P applies to the case of Gaza / Pinar Gözen Ercan -- R2P and the Syrian crisis : when semantics becomes a matter of life or death / Sonja Grover -- Bahrain : an R2P blind spot? / Aidan Hehir -- Responsibility to protect, the use of force and a permanent United Nations peace service / Annie Herro -- Protecting the world's most persecuted : the responsibility to protect and Burma's Rohingya minority /Lindsey N. Kingston -- Will R2P be ready when disaster strikes? : the rationale of the Responsibility to Protect in an environmental context / Konstantin Kleine -- Responsibility to protect and the lack of intervention in Syria between the protection of human rights and geopolitical strategies / Gabriele Lombardo -- Genocide, obligations erga omnes, and the responsibility to protect : remarks on a complex convergence / Marco Longobardo -- "Deterrent argument" and the responsibility to protect / Conall Mallory and Stuart Wallace -- State collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi -- Government failure, atrocity crimes and the role of the International Criminal Court : why not Syria, but Libya / Hovhanne Nikoghosyan -- Responsibility to protect : dead, dying, or thriving? / Maggie Powers -- Protecting while not being responsible : the case of Syria and responsibility to protect / Heidarali Teimouri -- Responsibility to protect and "peacetime atrocities" : the case of North Korea / Serena Timmoneri.