Many observers heralded the Security Council—sanctioned intervention in Libya in March
2011 as evidence of the efficacy of the responsibility to protect (R2P). Although there is no …

A broad-ranging introduction to the theory, practice and politics of humanitarian intervention
in the contemporary world. Recent events in Libya and Syria have propelled humanitarian …

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military
campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities. These wars of rescue, waged in the name of …

On 17 March 2011, the United Nations Security Council ('UNSC') passed Resolution 1973
authorising the use of force for civilian protection purposes in Libya. This resolution was …

This article discusses how security must be understood from a human rights perspective. It is
submitted that human rights law—ie classic civil human rights—in fact presupposes four …

In the years since the 1999 North Atlantic Treaty Oranization airstrikes on Serbia to prevent
ethnic cleansing of the KosovarAlbanians, international law has been moving in fts and …

Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United
Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on …

The question whether external actors have a right of intervention within a sovereign state
which is committing grave violations of human rights assumed particular significance in the …

This article analyses international negotiations over the 2011 Libyan crisis during the short
weeks between the start of the uprising and the passage and implementation of un Security …

This chapter analyses the relationship between the two related concepts of the responsibility
to protect (R2P) and the protection of civilians (POC) with particular emphasis on how their …