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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452559503321

Autore

Peltonen Hannes <1978-, >

Titolo

International responsibility and grave humanitarian crises : collective provision for human security / / Hannes Peltonen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York  : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09376-3

1-283-87392-3

1-136-20315-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Disciplina

363.34/526

Soggetti

Humanitarian intervention

Intervention (International law)

Security, International

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 International responsibility and human security; Two frameworks; Right or responsibility; Conclusion; 2 On responsibility; Responsibility; Collective responsibility; Collective responsibility to protect; Conclusion; 3 International collective responsibility; Collective guarantee of human security; To (not) perfect an imperfect duty; Communal contribution; An anticipated criticism; Conclusion; 4 Human security governance; Global governance of human security; Sovereignty as responsibility

The international community: a governor of sorts?5 The world through R2P; Neighborhood watch; Blurred vision?; Conclusion; 6 The international community reconsidered; Thick and thin international communities; The international community as an arrangement; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing. Collective responsibility highlights how we would like to see the global level



primarily as something more akin to a community of peoples, rather than as a society of states in which other international and trans-national actors operate. Since the acceptance of human rights and the atrocities of the Holocaust and other genocides, we have realised that some things concern us all: a realisation that has lead to the development of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework. This book focuses on understanding the international community and its collective responsibility. Unlike the research frameworks put forward in other publications on this topic, the research model developed here does not distribute the collective responsibility to particular actors; instead, it sets out how the burden should be divided among those actors responsible in order to protect human security on a global scale. This book will be of much interest to students of humanitarian intervention, the Responsibility to Protect, international law, peace and conflict studies and IR in general."