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Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South: 54 (Global Institutions) - Softcover

 
9780415781855: Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South: 54 (Global Institutions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041578185X ISBN 13: 9780415781855
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade.

This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes. The contributors to this collection analyze the responsibility to protect through multiple disciplines―philosophy, religion and spirituality, anthropology, and aesthetics in addition to international relations and law―to explore what light alternative perspectives outside of political science and international relations shed upon this emerging norm.

In each case, the disciplinary analysis emanates from the global South and from scholars located within countries that experienced violent political upheaval. Hence, they draw upon not only theory but also the first-hand experience with conscience-shocking crimes. Their retrospective and prospective analyses could and should help shape the future implementation of R2P in accordance with insights from vastly different contexts.

Offering a cutting edge contribution to thinking in the area, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in humanitarian intervention, peace and conflict studies, critical security studies and peacebuilding.

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About the Author

Rama Mani is the former Executive Director of The International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. She is currently a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and a councilor of the World Future Council, Hamburg.

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041578185X
ISBN 13 
9780415781855
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
Editor
Mani Rama, Weiss Thomas G.