Atrocity Crimes Framing the Responsibility to Protect

Scheffer, David J.

doi:10.1057/9780230618404_6

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“…As a result, the UN Security Council, which is responsible for the "maintenance of international peace and security" (United Nations, 2018b), has been widely criticized because of the alleged politicization of its decisions and the abuse of veto power (Weiss, 2003). Furthermore, the deployment of peacekeeping missions and the application of the responsibility to protect doctrine (R2P) -this is the responsibility of governments and the international communi-ty to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity (Camelo, 2011;Scheffer, 2007)-have been denounced as unbalanced and more related to geopolitical interests and interventionism than to humanitarian assistance (Chandler, 2004;Cunliffe, 2017).…”

Section: The Intricacy Of Security Challenges In the 21 St Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

The United Nations and 21st century security challenges in Colombia

Galindo-García¹,

Aristizábal-Murillo

2021

Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova

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Multifaceted 21st-century security challenges, such as terrorism, pandemics, illegal migration, and drug trafficking, permanently question the adequacy of both state and global organizations to guarantee general wellbeing, the rule of law, and the protection of human rights. In this sense, the United Nations (UN) has received the brunt of the criticism despite its growing responsibilities, the complexity of the threats, and its decision-making structure’s limitations. This paper examines the UN’s effectiveness in addressing Colombia’s major security challenges, suggesting that providing adequate assistance to build state capacity is key to reducing power vacuums that foster both deviant globalization and embryonic security challenges.

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Section: The Intricacy Of Security Challenges In the 21 St Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

The United Nations and 21st century security challenges in Colombia

Galindo-García¹,

Aristizábal-Murillo

2021

Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova

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“…and the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC)." 77 According to Scheffer, the atrocity focus of R2P-which he advocates-does not imply that political leaders need to wait for an ICC judgment before launching a military R2P operation.…”

Section: Realigning Rationales Under Responsibility To Protectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bombs, Trials, and Rights: Norm Complexity and the Evolution of Liberal Intervention Practices

Fehl¹

2019

Human Rights Quarterly

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This article analyzes the contested relationship between two practices of intervention on behalf of human rights victims, "humanitarian" military interventions and judicial interventions through international criminal tribunals. While both practices have come to be viewed as complementary instruments in the liberal interventionist "toolbox," their historical evolution was marked by tensions and controversies. To understand both the source of these frictions and how they could be (partly) overcome, the article draws attention to historical and contemporary processes of norm hybridization, that is, to discursive and institutional shifts that have merged different, preexisting normative ideas into new, complex normative arrangements. I.

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“…62 Rather R2P is merely a normative framework which can be used to apply leverage against the Security Council to convince them to take action. 63 Thus, arguably the most concerted effort in the modern era aimed at reforming the manner in which the international community responds to intra-state crises, culminated in literally no alteration to the existing discredited legal and political system. We consider this to be untenable as any legal order which is constructed so as to facilitate the selective enforcement of its most fundamental tenets is almost by definition flawed and certainly in need of reform.…”

Section: The Need For Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%