An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect [Paperback]

This book presents an institutional perspective on realizing the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.This volume provides an institutional perspective on the ability of key actors to protect populations from mass atrocities, including the main organs of the UN, important regional and security organisations, the main international judicial institutions and the regional human rights protection systems.This volume provides an institutional perspective on the ability of key actors to protect populations from mass atrocities, including the main organs of the UN, important regional and security organisations, the main international judicial institutions and the regional human rights protection systems.Covering the main political organs of the UN, important regional and security organizations, international judicial institutions and the regional human rights protection systems, An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect examines the roles and responsibilities of the international community regarding the responsibility to protect. It also proposes improvements to the current system of collective security and human rights protection.Part I. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: 1. The coining and evolution of responsibility to protect: the protection responsibilities of the state Diana Amn?us; 2. Non-state actors Rapha?l van Steenberghe; 3. Peacekeeping operations Susan C. Breau; Part II. The United Nations System: 4. The Security Council Terry D. Gill; 5. The General Assembly Cedric Ryngaert and Hanne Cuyckens; 6. The Secretary-General Nicholas Turner; 7. The UN Human Rights Council Lyal S. Sunga; 8. The International Law Commission Arnold Pronto; Part III. Regional and Security Organisations: 9. The European Union Daniel Fiott and Marie Vincent; 10. The African Union Solomon A. Dersso; 11. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Noel M. Morada; 12lƒp