Edward Luck, the UN special advisor on the Responsibility to Protect talks about the issue of a possble blockage of the UN Security Council….

Within the concept of r2p there is a need for criteria: in which cases and under which circumstances a military intervention is justified, and therefore to act consistently and to avoid a moral double standard.The criterion of reasonable prospects…

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Three years ago, at the Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law, Prof. Alvarez talked about ‘the schizophrenias of R2P’ to add that, ‘R2P’s normative legs result from its not consistent, various iterations, as well as fr…

On 27 December 2007, Kenyans went to the polls in the most spirited national elections since the return to multiparty politics in 1992. As results began to pour in from key constituencies, rumours of election-rigging began to surface. Shortly ther…

It was a successful start to the conference sessions on Wednesday, with stimulating, thought-provoking presentations by the day’s speakers and equally interesting, incisive questions and comments from the audience. Among the recurrent issues in We…

At a conference on R2P, one has to be modest when talking about humanitarian interevention, since much emphasis is put on the distinction between the two. Indeed, as we have learned, concerns about military intervention can be seen as the main obs…

The emergence of the R2P as a distinct set of principles is usually traced to the report of the Canadian government-established International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). However, during the discussions at the conferen…

One of the highlights of Wednesday’s conference sessions was the screening of film ‘Worse Than War’, which explores the phenomenon of genocide and how it can be stopped. The film is based on a book with a similar name by the award-winning author D…

We have heard more than once today that it should be considered as progress that R2P has now been focused to be triggered by genocide, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing, as it should mean that the concept is becoming more operational. Wh…