The Impact of the Responsibility to Protect on Peacekeeping

Breau, Susan

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“…75 The evolution of peacekeeping doctrine and practice has closely tracked the development of R2P policy. 76 Reference to R2P has become a staple of many UNSC resolutions and presidential statements, while civilian protection has become an integral component of many UN peacekeeping mandates, now issued as often as not under the coercive Chapter VII of the UN Charter. 77 This reached its zenith with UNSC Resolution 2098 (28 March 2013) authorizing the creation of a 'Force Intervention Brigade' in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…”

Section: With the Report Of The Commission Of Inquiry Set Up By The Umentioning

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The Responsibility to Protect at 15

Thakur

2016

International Affairs

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In the fifteen years since the publication of the report ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, there has been a burgeoning literature on all aspects of R2P. This review article focuses on five issues. First, it revisits the shift from ‘humanitarian intervention’ to R2P as the key innovation in 2001, highlighting the political, conceptual, normative, procedural and operational differences between the two. Second, it examines the state of knowledge regarding the causes of atrocities; the institutional vulnerabilities and points of resilience; the pathways from simmering animosities to mass killings; the indicators and precursors; and the most effective preventive and response mechanisms. Third, it reviews the unsatisfactory state of R2P implementation. Fourth, it discusses the main R2P actors, from international organizations and key groups of states to individuals. Finally, it addresses the continuing scepticism about R2P, in that it does not resolve all the dilemmas of how outsiders can provide timely, decisive and effective assistance to any group in need of protection.

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Section: With the Report Of The Commission Of Inquiry Set Up By The Umentioning

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The Responsibility to Protect at 15

Thakur

2016

International Affairs

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“…When they are deployed to protect a civilian population, often in intrastate conflicts with participation of irregular combatants, peacekeepers participate in combat more often. Their goal is to create or enforce peace, instead of keep it (Breau, 2006). The broader mandate to use force, with a positive responsibility for security of civilians, needs to be regulated through new, specific norms -so-called jus post bellum (Stahn, 2006).…”

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The blurring border between the police and the military

Weiss¹

2011

Cooperation and Conflict

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This review article reviews the current ‘state of the art’ and literature on the role of the police and military within the changing nature of internal and external security. Some scholars believe that the border between these two forces has recently begun to blur, whereas others strongly disagree. This article argues that the current debate lacks comprehensiveness and conceptual underpinning. It is suggested that definitional differences between the two forces should serve as the basis for detailed and comprehensive future case studies.

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“…64 On the other hand, agreement has been reached in less high-profile cases, such as those of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi, without the need for thresholds. 65 Nor is there much evidence to suggest that the thresholds could constrain the use of the veto. It has been suggested, for example, that Russia and China might have been 'compelled' into abstaining on a vote authorizing intervention in Darfur had such a resolution been tabled in the Council and backed by the argument that intervention would be the only means of relieving the humanitarian catastrophe.…”

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The Responsibility to Protect and the problem of military intervention

Bellamy

2008

International Affairs

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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. From inauspicious beginnings, the principle was endorsed by the General Assembly in 2005 and unanimously reaffirmed by the Security Council in 2006 (Resolution 1674). However, the principle remains hotly contested primarily because of its association with humanitarian intervention and the pervasive belief that its principal aim is to create a pathway for the legitimization of unilateral military intervention. This article sets forth the argument that a deepening consensus on R2P is dependent on its dissociation from the politics of humanitarian intervention and suggests that one way of doing this is by abandoning the search for criteria for decision‐making about the use of force, one of the centre pieces of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 2001 report that coined the phrase R2P. Criteria were never likely to win international support, the article maintains, and were less likely to improve decision‐making on how best to respond to major humanitarian crises. Nevertheless, R2P can make an important contribution to thinking about the problem of military intervention by mitigating potential ‘moral hazards’, overcoming the tendency of international actors to focus exclusively on military methods and giving impetus to efforts to operationalize protection in the field.

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The Impact of the Responsibility to Protect on Peacekeeping

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The Responsibility to Protect at 15

The Responsibility to Protect at 15

The blurring border between the police and the military

The Responsibility to Protect and the problem of military intervention

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