Reflections on the three pillars of the responsibility to protect, and a possible alternative approach

Barber, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/10357718.2023.2241835

Australian Journal of International Affairs

2023

DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2241835

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Reflections on the three pillars of the responsibility to protect, and a possible alternative approach

Rebecca Barber

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Norm modification and the responsibility to protect: Towards a four‐pillar framework

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2024

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The Respronsibility to Protect (RtoP) faces intense contestation. Within a rapidly evolving world order, this is only likely to increase. And absent substantive norm modification to (re‐)establish genuine concensus over the meaning of the norm, RtoP faces immminent weakening. This paper suggests one such avenue of modification: reimagining RtoP's structure across four pillars instead of the existing three. It disagregates the existing third pillar across two pillars: a new fourth‐pillar which contains the last resort use of collective force, in‐line with the UN CHarter, and a third‐pillar which retains the existing non‐forcible dimensions of the international responsibility to respond. This new four‐pillar RtoP poses three distinct advantages. It increases the potential for peaceful international responses to mass atrocity by addressing the wide‐spread tendency to conflate the entire international responsibility to respond with the last‐resort use of force; it opens broader space for reconciling divergent global perspectives on the use of force, highlighting the collective and and last‐resort nature of legitimate military enforcement; and it resolves additional points of contestation over RtoP including whether the pillars are sequential or mutually reinforcing.

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Norm modification and the responsibility to protect: Towards a four‐pillar framework

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Reflections on the three pillars of the responsibility to protect, and a possible alternative approach

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