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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462762403321

Autore

Labonte Melissa

Titolo

Human rights and humanitarian norms, strategic framing, and intervention : lessons for the responsibility to protect / / Melissa Labonte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-91966-4

0-203-08094-7

1-136-17062-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Routledge global institutions series ; ; 71

Disciplina

341.5/84

Soggetti

Humanitarian intervention

Human rights - Government policy

Human rights - International cooperation

Responsibility to protect (International law)

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; Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Contemporary humanitarian intervention in theory and practice; 2 Making a good argument and mobilizing political will; 3 Humanitarian intervention in Somalia; 4 Failure to intervene in Rwanda; 5 Mixed intervention in Sierra Leone; 6 Strategic framing, norms, and civilian protection: Can R2P succeed where humanitarian intervention has failed?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Routledge Global Institutions Series

Sommario/riassunto

The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In many cases concerned states responded, either through moral suasion; gentle or coercive diplomacy;



or other non-forcible measures, to prevent or halt the indiscriminate human rights violations that were occurring. In others, states simply turned away and left the vulnerable to their fate. And sti