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Title The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/316949; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/316949/3/The%20Moral%20Untouchability%20of%20the%20Responsibility%20to%20Protect.pdf.jpg
Date 2022
Author(s) Hobson, Christopher
Abstract The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a doctrine motivated by good intentions. Yet an overriding concern with the successful consolidation of R2P as a norm, as well as the institutionalisation of R2P with academic and policy circles, has led to an excessive focus on the doctrine itself, rather than the atrocities meant to be motivating it. These limitations and shortcomings are examined and subsequently worked through in reference to the 2011 Libyan intervention. It is argued there should be less concern with norm development, and more explicit engagement with the responsibilities that come with supporting the doctrine.
Subject(s) Responsibility to protect; humanitarian intervention; humanitarianism; human rights; Libya
Language en_AU
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Type of publication Journal article
Format application/pdf
Source Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Rights © 2022 The authors
Identifier 1750-2985; 10.1080/17502977.2021.2015146
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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