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5. Upholding the Responsibility?

verfasst von : Pınar Gözen Ercan

Erschienen in: Debating the Future of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

In his various reports, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlights that states have a responsibility to protect their populations from atrocity crimes, and that such responsibility arises from well-established rules of international law. Nevertheless, as Shaw (2003, p. 58) reminds, ‘most of the mass killings of modern history can be laid at the door of state organizations. States are the practitioners of slaughter par excellence’. From an R2P point of view, this corresponds to a manifest failure of states, which would invoke the responsibility of the international community. It is the assumption of such responsibility by the international community, which arguably is the genuine point where R2P can lead to a change in the pattern of failure at the state level and become an answer to the call for ‘no more Rwandas’.

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Nächstes Kapitel The Way Forward

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Titel: Upholding the Responsibility?
verfasst von: Pınar Gözen Ercan
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buch: Debating the Future of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-52426-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-52427-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52427-0_5