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What if R2P Was—Truly—Everyone’s Business? Exploring the Individual Responsibility to Protect
- Source :
- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. 41:29-48
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2016.
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Abstract
- Echoing the call recently made by Ed and Dana Luck and building on a research project triggered several years ago by Siba Grovogui’s postcolonial critique of the concept of responsibility to protect (R2P), this article explores the significance of what may be labeled individual R2P. It argues that acknowledging individual R2P as part of the doctrine not only highlights the role that a heretofore underappreciated layer of actors can and does play to protect individuals from some of the worst crimes. At the theoretical level, it also has the potential to mitigate some of the R2P doctrine’s main ambiguities, while in real life, acknowledging individual R2P does, without exonerating institutional actors from their obvious responsibilities, recognize at the very least the right of people of conscience, worldwide, to take matters in their own hands even in the worst cases of international paralysis.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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Agency (philosophy)
Doctrine
Public relations
050601 international relations
0506 political science
Luck
Political science
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
Moral responsibility
Cosmopolitanism
business
Responsibility to protect
Human security
Conscience
Law and economics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21633150 and 03043754
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Alternatives: Global, Local, Political
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c54f582cc8fc2dd1d54a4e040c7b95a3