Atrocity crimes and international law : responsibility to protect, intercession, and non-forceful responses

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Title
"Atrocity crimes and international law : responsibility to protect, intercession, and non-forceful responses"
Statement of Responsibility
Stacey Henderson
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2023
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Adelaide, 2018) issued under title: Permission to intercede or sovereignty supreme? : the influence of R2P on non- forceful responses to atrocity crimes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Despite repeated declarations of 'never again' in response to the commission of atrocities, civilians have continued to be targeted by their leaders and opposition groups. The international law principles of sovereignty and non-intervention, when taken at their highest, require States to stand idle and not intervene in another State regardless of what atrocities may be occurring there. This traditional legal view is being challenged by an emerging practice of States choosing to respond in non-forceful ways, inspired by the concept of the Responsibility to Protect. Drawing on Responsibility to Protect (R2P), this book introduces and develops an original conceptual tool - intercession - to capture and explain this change in State practice and the impact of R2P on the development of international law. Through a close examination of State practice, the work explores whether there has been an expansion in the permissible measures and situations in which States can intervene, without using force,

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