This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater interconnectedness of various R2P proponents.
In 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on R2P, which reaffirmed its commitment from the 2005 World Summit Outcome and put R2P on the annual agenda. For many R2P proponents, this was another manifestation of worldwide R2P relevance and of growing support among UN members to protect people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Yet the existing crises in Myanmar, Venezuela, Belarus, Syria and many others revealed the widening gap between the discourse and practice. This book aims to find out what keeps the concept alive despite its indisputable pitfalls. In contrast to existing studies that treat the R2P endorsement or contestation as intertwined processes of norm evolution, it argues that the status of R2P has been accomplished by the conscious politics of its advocates operating in complex global networks. As such, the book puts emphasis on the agency of R2P champions and examines who keeps the idea resonating and how they manage to preserve its worldwide relevance. Rather than proposing a new model of advocacy, the book aims to pinpoint the politics of R2P's circulation, the importance of individual R2P champions and their interconnectedness through innovative forms of cooperation within complex networks.
This book will be of much interest to students of the R2P, diplomacy, human rights, foreign policy and International Relations.
Author(s): Sarka Kolmasova
Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes
References
1 The Conceptual Framework of Diffusion and Circulation
Who? The Agents of Circulation
What? The Subjects of Circulation
How? Channels of Circulation
The Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Circulation Politics
Notes
References
2 R2P “Ambassadors” in Transnational Knowledge and Advocacy Networks
The Global Center for R2P
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect
The Asia-Pacific Center for R2P
The European Center for R2P
The Politics of R2P Circulation Through Knowledge and Advocacy
Summary
Notes
References
3 R2P “Ambassadors” in Diplomatic Networks
Group of Friends of R2P and the Global Network of R2P Focal Points
R2P Advocates in Australia
R2P Advocates in Denmark
R2P Advocates in Slovenia
R2P Advocates in Qatar
Summary
Notes
References
4 R2P “Ambassadors” in Bureaucratic Networks
The UN Bureaucrats and R2P’s Circulation
Edward C. Luck – Pioneering the R2P Framework at the UN
Jennifer Welsh – Defending R2P in the Face of Contestation
Ivan Šimonovic – Moving From Conceptualization to Implementation
Karen Smith – Operationalizing R2P as a Prevention of Hate Speech
George Okoth-Obbo – Narrowing Protection to Children and Young People
OAS Secretary-General and Special Adviser On R2P
OAS Special Advisers On R2P, Jared Genser
R2P Focal Point Within the European External Action Service
Summary
Notes
References
5 The Politics of R2P Circulation and the Crisis in Myanmar
Myanmar as an R2P Case Prior to 2017
R2P Advocacy Campaigns to Protect the Rohingyas Since 2017
Advisory Commission On Rakhine State
R2P Advocates and Atrocity Crimes in Rakhine State
R2P Advocates and Proposed Measures in Response to the 2017 Atrocities
The Response of R2P Champions Among States to the 2017 Crisis
Australia
Denmark
Slovenia
Qatar
Making Sense of Myanmar – A Retrospective R2P Assessment
“If Not Now, When?” – Politics of Shaming and Failed R2P in Myanmar
“Responsibility to Investigate and Prosecute” – Politics of R2P Appropriation
5.4.3 “The Way Forward?” – Politics of Lessons Learned
Summary
Notes
References
Conclusion
Who Are the R2P Advocates?
How Do the R2P Advocates Circulate R2P?
Notes
References
Index
