In order to put an end to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the parties and the UN community need to focus on establishing accountability, possibly through an ICC referral.
Tag: responsibility to protect
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The Security Council’s failure on Syria more likely stems from complexities and geopolitics associated with the Syrian case itself rather than from political backlash from NATO’s controversial intervention in Libya.
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Why hasn’t the principle adopted by the United Nations in 2005 to prevent genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing—known as the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP)—helped to stop the war crimes in Syria?
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Fraught with difficulty, can the relationship between humanitarian action, atrocity prevention, and RtoP be improved?
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The international community has a unique opportunity to learn from the past, rectify its missteps, and usher in lasting peace in CAR.
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Moral or legal considerations grounded in the Responsibility to Protect sometimes make it more difficult to negotiate an end to violence with political leaders responsible for atrocity crimes.
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As momentum builds for a military response, the use of chemical weapons in Syria could yet spur consensus on a political solution.
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Robert Pape thinks the Genocide Convention and R2P have failed, but Gareth Evans and Ramesh Thakur disagree.
