The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention
Serena K. Sharma and Jennifer M. Welsh
Abstract
Drawing on contributions from an international group of academics and practitioners, this edited collection seeks to improve our knowledge of how to operationalize the responsibility to prevent (R2P). The volume is divided into three parts. The first part addresses conceptual issues, including debates over the appropriate scope and substance of R2P’s preventive dimension. The second section explores some of the tools that can be used, and have been used, to prevent the escalation of dynamics towards the commission of atrocity crimes (tools such as sanctions, mediation, international criminal j ... More
Drawing on contributions from an international group of academics and practitioners, this edited collection seeks to improve our knowledge of how to operationalize the responsibility to prevent (R2P). The volume is divided into three parts. The first part addresses conceptual issues, including debates over the appropriate scope and substance of R2P’s preventive dimension. The second section explores some of the tools that can be used, and have been used, to prevent the escalation of dynamics towards the commission of atrocity crimes (tools such as sanctions, mediation, international criminal justice, and the use of military means), as well as the operational challenges that tend to obstruct global efforts to prevent such crimes. A third and final section turns to a set of case studies, drawing lessons from actual instances of preventive action, both historical and recent, about the relative success of particular tools and approaches.
Keywords:
R2P,
United Nations,
responsibility to prevent,
crimes,
targeted,
systemic,
genocide,
ethnic cleansing,
war crimes,
crimes against humanity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198717782 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717782.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Serena K. Sharma, editor
Lecturer, King's College London
Jennifer M. Welsh, editor
Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute, Italy and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford
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