The Responsibility to Protect

• Includes a preface by Desmond Tutu and Václav Havel
• A thorough and comprehensive treatment of the still-emerging "RtoP" doctrine whereby the international community may intervene when a given nation fails to protect its own citizens from mass atrocities, through graduated measures up to and including the potential use of force as a last resort
• Balances its proposals by presenting differing viewpoints on this contentious subject
• Provides case studies to demonstrate how the "RtoP" principle works in practice
• Accessible to students and professors of international law but practical enough for use by international organizations, NGOs, and think tanks

Readership: Legal academics, political scientists, historians, law students, policymakers, agency staff, NGO officers, and journalists.

Jared Genser, Managing Director, Perseus Strategies, Honourable Irwin Cotler, M.P., Professor, Canadian Parliament, Prefaced by Desmond Tutu, and Prefaced by Václav Havel

Preface by Desmond Tutu and Václav Havel Irwin Cotler is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Programme at McGill University. He previously served as Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General and currently serves as an M.P. in Canada's Parliament. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale.

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a law firm whose practice focuses on international human rights. Independently, he is founder of Freedom Now, a non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Previously, he was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LL P and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.

"With an introduction by Desmond Tutu and the late Václav Havel, the assembled contributors have produced the best discussion on how best to apply R2P to current and future humanitarian crises." - Thor Halvorssen, Huffington Post

"Including perspectives from a diverse group of experts, iThe responsibility to Protectr makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship about this new and evolving doctrine. At the same time, however, the case studies in the book illustrate the painful reality of the large gap between the world's stated commitment to halting mass atrocities and its ongoing practice. Ultimately, it recommends a series of practical steps that should be taken by the international community to bring its promise to fruition." - The Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire, Senator (Canada) and Lietenant General (Ret.)

"The goalposts have moved in recent years as much more robust obligations are expected of states and intergovernmental organizations when vulnerable groups face humanitarian crises, be these man-made or natural. Nowhere is this more clearly manifested than in the evolving doctrine of iThe Responsibility to Protectr. This rich and authoritative collection of essays provides a superb tour d'horizon of the subject, explaining the theoretical and political issues and setting out the relevance of the concept to the great challenges of our times." - William Schabas, Middlesex University, London

Preface
Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler
Abbreviations
Introduction
Václav Havel and Desmond M. Tutu
Part I. The Development of the Responsibility to Protect
1 Evolution of the Concept of State Sovereignty, Lloyd Axworthy
2 Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect, William W. Burke-White
3 Defining the Mass-Atrocity Crimes Covered, Tarun Chhabra and Jeremy B. Zucker
4 Challenges and Controversies, Nicole Deller
5 Implementing the Responsibility to Protect, Edward C. Luck
Part II. Regional Perspectives
6 Africa, Ademola Abass
7 Asia and the Pacific, Noel M. Morada
8 Europe and North America, Mark V. Vlasic
9 Latin America and the Caribbean, Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues
10 Middle East, Mohamed S. Helal
Part III. Case Studies
11 Darfur (Sudan), Andrew S. Natsios and Zachary Scott
12 Burma (Myanmar), Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro and Meghan Barron
13 Kenya, Meredith Preston-McGhie and Serena Sharma
14 Sri Lanka, Damien Kingsbury
15 Democratic Republic of Congo, Delphine Schrank
16 Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kjell Magne Bondevik and Kristen Abrams
Conclusion: Lessons and Challeges
Gareth Evans