An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect

574 Pages·2013·3.275 MB·English

by  Dr Gentian Zyberi

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AN INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
Covering the State, the main political organs of the UN, important
regional and security organisations, international judicial institutions
and the regional human rights protection systems, An Institutional
ApproachtotheResponsibilitytoProtectexaminestherolesandrespon-
sibilities of the State and the international community regarding the
responsibility to protect, and proposes improvements to the current
systemofcollectivesecurityandhumanrightsprotection.
gentian zyberi is Associate Professor of International Law at the
NorwegianCentreforHumanRights,UniversityofOslo,Norway.

AN INSTITUTIONAL
APPROACH TO THE
RESPONSIBILITY TO
PROTECT
Edited by
GENTIAN ZYBERI
Assistant editor
KEVIN T. MASON
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CONTENTS
Notesoncontributors pageviii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvi
i
Theoreticalandpracticalperspectives
ontheresponsibilitytoprotect 1
1 Thecoiningandevolutionofresponsibility
toprotect:theprotectionresponsibilitiesoftheState 3
diana amne´us
2 Non-Stateactors 33
raphae¨l van steenberghe
3 Peacekeepingoperations 58
susan c. breau
ii
TheUnitedNationssystem 81
4 TheSecurityCouncil 83
terry d. gill
5 TheGeneralAssembly 109
cedric ryngaert and hanne cuyckens
6 TheSecretary-General 130
nicholas turner
7 TheHumanRightsCouncil 156
lyal s. sunga
8 TheInternationalLawCommission 179
arnold n. pronto
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iii
Regionalandsecurityorganisations 197
9 TheEuropeanUnion 199
daniel fiott and marie vincent
10 TheAfricanUnion 220
solomon a. dersso
11 TheAssociationofSoutheastAsianNations 247
noel m. morada
12 TheOrganizationofAmericanStates 268
paulo de tarso lugon arantes
13 TheArabLeague 289
mahasen m. aljaghoub, ibrahim m. aljazy
and maysa s. bydoon
14 TheOrganizationforSecurityandCo-operationin
Europe 312
dennis j. d. sandole
15 TheNorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization 338
jody m. prescott
iv
Internationalcourtsandtribunals 363
16 TheInternationalCourtofJustice 365
gentian zyberi
17 TheUnitedNationsCriminalTribunalsforYugoslavia
andRwanda 386
niki frencken and gran sluiter
18 TheInternationalCriminalCourt 411
michael contarino and melinda negro´n-
gonzales
v
Regionalhumanrightsprotectionmechanisms 437
19 TheEuropeansystemofhumanrights 439
rhona smith and conall mallory
20 TheInter-Americansystemofhumanrights 459
o. hilaire sobers
contents vii
21 TheAfricansystemofhumanrights 481
frans viljoen
vi
Concludingremarks 509
22 Sharingtheresponsibilitytoprotect:takingstock
andmovingforward 511
gentian zyberi
Index 531
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
mahasen m.aljaghoub isAssociateProfessorofInternationalLaw,
UniversityofJordan,Jordan.
diana amne´us is Associate Senior Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg
Institute, Lund University, Sweden and Senior Legal Adviser,
TemporaryInternationalPresenceinHebron(TIPH).
susan c. breau is Professor of International Law, School of Law,
FlindersUniversity,Australia.
michael contarino is Associate Professor of Politics and Director
of the Politics and Society programme at the University of New
HampshireatManchester,UnitedStatesofAmerica.
hanne cuyckens isPh.D.candidate,CatholicUniversityofLeuven,
Belgium.
solomon a. dersso isseniorresearcherwiththePeaceandSecurity
CouncilProjectoftheInstituteforSecurityStudiesandadjunctprofes-
sorofhumanrightsatAddisAbabaUniversity,Ethiopia.
daniel fiott isPh.D.researcher,InstituteforEuropeanStudies,Vrije
UniversiteitBrussels,Belgium.
niki frencken isaninternationalconsultant;MAinconflictstudies
andhumanrightsandLL.Minpublicinternationallaw,Amsterdam,the
Netherlands.
terry d. gill is Professor of Military Law at the University of
Amsterdam and at the Netherlands Defence Academy and Associate
Professor of International Law at the University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands.
conall mallory is lecturer in law, University of Northumbria,
UnitedKingdom.
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