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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821492303321

Titolo

Responsibility to protect : cultural perspectives in the global South / / edited by Rama Mani and Thomas G. Weiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-66121-2

1-283-46029-7

9786613460295

1-136-66122-0

0-203-80728-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxvi, 260 p

Collana

Routledge global institutions ; ; 54

Altri autori (Persone)

ManiRama

WeissThomas George

Disciplina

327.1/17091724

Soggetti

Responsibility to protect (International law)

Genocide intervention

Human rights

Political violence - Developing countries - Prevention

Human rights - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Reflections in religion, philosophy, and art -- pt. 2. Country cases.

Sommario/riassunto

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.