Living up to Responsibilities: UN Humanitarian Interventions and the Impact of R2P
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which was unanimously signed by UN member states in 2005, declared that states have a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. R2P was revolutionary for the time given that previously the UN considered domestic state sovereignty as inviolable and was only allowed to intervene if the state threatened international peace and security. Fourteen years later, R2P has been invoked in humanitarian interventions in Libya and Côte d’Ivoire but has been ignored in other cases of mass atrocities such as in Syria. This thesis examines how R2P has changed the way the UN performs interventions in conflicts and whether it has succeeded in preventing and abating mass atrocities. Specifically, this thesis takes a quantitative approach in analyzing how R2P and other factors have affected how fast the UN intervenes in civil wars and then examines these causal mechanisms qualitatively using three case studies of Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Syria.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Anderson, Grace |
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| Advisor | Stedman, Stephen J. |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of International Relations |
Subjects
| Subject | United Nations |
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| Subject | Responsibility to Protect |
| Subject | Human Rights |
| Subject | Security Council |
| Subject | Intervention |
| Subject | International Relations |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Anderson, Grace. (2019). Living up to Responsibilities: UN Humanitarian Interventions and the Impact of R2P. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/jy747mh8570
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