In 2005, the international community unanimously endorsed a revolutionary norm that has the potential to end genocide and other atrocity crimes in our time. Despite its endorsement at the highest political level and the general feeling of the American public that “something needs to be done” to prevent and stop atrocity crimes, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is very much absent from public thinking and the political agenda in the United States. Written by a stellar cast of authors, this book informs the public and leadership about R2P and its potential. It will also influence the academic, community and political debates by providing crucial insights on how to move R2P from rhetoric to action.
Author(s): Richard H. Cooper, Juliette Voinov Kohler
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction: The Responsibility to Protect: The Opportunity to Relegate Atrocity Crimes to the Past......Page 16
Section I: The Responsibility to Protect: Roots and Rationale......Page 28
1 The Responsibility to Protect: From an Idea to an International Norm......Page 30
2 Advancing the Responsibility to Protect Through International Criminal Justice......Page 46
3 In Our Interest: The Responsibility to Protect......Page 58
4 Toward a Jewish Argument for the Responsibility to Protect......Page 76
5 Atrocity Crimes Framing the Responsibility to Protect......Page 92
Section II: Where the Rubber Hits the Road: The Responsibility to Protect in Northern Uganda, Darfur, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And Iraq?......Page 114
6 Was the Iraq War a Humanitarian Intervention? And What Are Our Responsibilities Today?......Page 116
7 The Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Story of Lost Opportunities to Prevent or Reduce Deadly Conflicts......Page 130
8 Dealing with Atrocities in Northern Uganda......Page 144
9 Spread Wide the Word: Organizing the Grassroots to End Atrocity Crimes......Page 160
Section III: Moving the Responsibility to Protect from Rhetoric to Action: What it Means for Philanthropy, the United States, and the International Community......Page 176
10 Reaching Across Borders: Philanthropy’s Role in the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes......Page 178
11 Beyond Words: U.S. Policy and the Responsibility to Protect......Page 194
12 Building Structures for Peace: A Quaker Lobby Offers Strategies for Peacemakers......Page 214
13 Realizing the Responsibility to Protect in Emerging and Acute Crises: A Civil Society Proposal for the United Nations......Page 234
14 Moving From Military Intervention to Judicial Enforcement: The Case for an International Marshals Service......Page 258
List of Contributors......Page 278
J......Page 284
U......Page 285
