The Oxford handbook of the responsibility to protect / edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1001-1088) and index.

R2P in Theory and Practice / Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne -- Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century / Davide Rodogno -- The Genocide Convention and Cold War Humanitarian Intervention / Tim Dunne and Eglantine Staunton -- The Turbulent 1990s : R2P Precedents and Prospects / Thomas G. Weiss -- Sovereignty as Responsibility : Building Block for R2P / Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng -- Rwanda, Kosovo, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty / Ramesh Thakur -- The Genesis of R2P : Kofi Annan's Intervention Dilemma / Charles Cater and David M. Malone -- R2P's Status as a Norm / Melissa Labonte -- Sovereignty / Luke Glanville -- Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect / Toni Erskine -- R2P and International Law : A Paradigm Shift? / Sir Nigel Rodley -- How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West? / Faith Mabera and Yolanda Spies -- The Responsibility Not to Veto : A Responsibility Too Far? / Justin Morris and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- UN Security Council / Alex J. Bellamy -- UN General Assembly / Megan Schmidt -- Getting There, Being There : The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser / Edward C. Luck -- UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights / Ekkehard Strauss -- The Role of Regional Organizations : A Responsibility Gap? / David Carment, Joe Landry, and Sean Winchester -- The African Union / Kwesi Aning and Frank Okyere -- Asia Pacific and South Asia / Sarah Teitt -- Europe and the European Union / Chiara de Franco, Christoph Meyer, and Karen E. Smith -- Russia / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Latin America / Mónica Serrano -- The Arab Region / Fateh Azzam and Coralie Pison Hindawi -- United States / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Addressing the Gender Gap in R2P / Sara E. Davies -- The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P / Roland Paris -- The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and UN Peacekeeping Operations / Paul D. Williams -- Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War : Complementarity and Tension between R2P and Humanitarian Action / Hugo Slim -- The Use of Force / Taylor B. Seybolt -- Conflict Prevention and R2P / Ruben Reike -- Responding to Forced Displacement as a Mass Atrocity Crime / Phil Orchard -- Responsibility while Protecting / Oliver Stuenkel -- The International Criminal Court / Jason Ralph -- The Use of UN Sanctions to Address Mass Atrocities / Jeremy Farrall -- The Politics of Global Humanitarianism : R2P before and after Libya / Michael W. Doyle -- Côte dIvoire / Charles T. Hunt -- Darfur / Jess Gifkins -- The Democratic Republic of Congo / Arthur Boutellis -- Kenya / Serena K. Sharma -- Libya / Simon Adams -- Mali / John Karlsrud -- Myanmar / Jürgen Haacke -- North Korea / Boris Kondoch -- Somalia / Walter Lotze -- South Sudan / Alison Giffen -- Sri Lanka / Kimberly Nackers -- Syria / Bessma Momani and Tanzeel Hakak -- R2P : The Next Ten Years / Gareth Evans -- The State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China's Shaping of the Trajectory of R2P / Rosemary Foot -- Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities / Kishore Mahbubani -- Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security : R2P in the Next Ten Years / Lloyd Axworthy -- R2P's Next Ten Years : Deepening and Extending the Consensus / Jennifer M. Welsh.

"The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale - have occurred even during the post 1945 period when the United Nations was built to save us all from the scourge of genocide. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities. R2P maintains that collective action should be taken by members of the United Nations to prevent or halt such gross violations of basic human rights. This Handbook, containing contributions from leading theorists, and practitioners (including former foreign ministers and special advisors), examines the progress that has been made in the last 10 years; it also looks forward to likely developments in the next decade."--Publisher's website.