Bellamy t he responsibility to protect rtop played an important role in shaping the worlds response to actual and threatened atrocities in libya. Pdf responsibility to protect and transatlantic burden. This was the first time that the council has ever authorized the invasion of a functioning state for such purposes. Responsibility to protect and transatlantic burdensharing in the case of the military intervention in libya 2011. The evolved human rights law has called for a shift international law with regard to humanitarian. The responsibility to protect rtop played an important role in shaping the worlds response to actual and threatened atrocities in libya. First and foremost, r2p reflects the negative duty for states to refrain from committing atrocities against its own people, a responsibility the regime of col.
The african unions response to the libyan crisis of 2011. To this end, i will explore the role of the r2p principle with regard to the current challenges. The libyan crisis has brought focus to the critical and complex issue of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. The responsibility to protect rtop or r2p is an international human rights norm adopted at. Humanitarian intervention, the responsibility to protect, and confused legitimacy. Prior to the resolution being passed, however, libya and the responsibility to protect r2p did feature prominently in many of the panel discussions.
Responsibility to protect through articles, calls for action and opeds. First and foremost, r2p reflects the negative duty for states to refrain from. In 2011, public demonstrations started in libya seeking political and. The concerns over the use of force based on resolution 1973 in libya. This article explores the role that the responsibility to protect r2p played in the 2011 intervention in libya. The use of force to protect civilians and humanitarian action. The doctrine of responsibility to protect r2p holds that when a sovereign state.
Libya, the responsibility to protect and the future of. The applicability of the responsibility to protect or r2p principle to the current situation in libya is undeniable. It examines the r2p legal framework in coordination with events on the ground in libya during the early part of 2011 in order to thoroughly explain that r2p was correctly invoked by the united nations security council in order to uphold international law. Rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention palgrave macmillan, 2012 international law, security and ethics coeditor, routledge, 2011. Responsibility to protect r2p, which was at the basis of the intervention in libya. World summit in 2005, more than 150 heads of state and government unanimously adopted a declaration on the responsibility to protect authorizing international.
Libya 2011 following widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population by the regime in the libyan arab jamahiriya short. Bellamy t he responsibility to protect rtop played an important role in shaping the worlds response to. Meanwhile, as the first unambiguous military enforcement of the. Many observers heralded the security councilsanctioned intervention in libya in march 2011 as evidence of the efficacy of the responsibility to protect r2p.
The responsibility to protect after libya and syria the. May 2011 impact of action in libya on the responsibility. Pdf the responsibility to protect r2p after libya researchgate. Responsibility to protect and its applicability in libya. Responsibility to protect gained ground after ghastly mass killings in the late 20th. The libyan crisis of 2011 has again raised the crucial problem of the choice of. Libya and the future of the responsibility to protect. The situation in libya constituted a threat to nonmaterial, moral values, specifically human rights, and invoked the responsibility to protect norm. Responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention and human rights.
From this it may be possible to have a better understanding of how and when the responsibility to protect triggers the responsibility to react. This article explores the responsibility to protect rtop in the postlibya era to determine whether it is now an accepted norm of international law. Critics of the responsibility to protect r2p and interventionism in general have long accused international humanitarian action of being a form of. The security councils press statement on libya yesterday included a phrase that ought to pique some interest.
This was all done at a modest financial cost, with no u. It examines the r2p legal framework in coordination. Opinion libya and the responsibility to protect the. The emerging principle of the responsibility to protect r2p challenges chinas traditional emphasis on nonintervention in the domestic affairs of other states and nonuse of force. Libya and the responsibility to protect united states. On march 28, president obama delivered a speech for the purpose of explaining his decision to use military force in libya. Aus responsibility to protect in the libyan crisis 2011.
Impact of action in libya on the responsibility to protect 1. Libya and the responsibility to protect between opportunistic humanitarianism and valuefree pragmatism the application of the responsibility to protect r2p norm to libya in 2011 was. On 17 march 2011, the united nations security council unsc passed resolution 1973 authorising the use of force for civilian protection purposes in libya. Libya and the future of the responsibility to protect 3 by the popularization of the concepts of human security and civilian protection, even though each organization has adopted a. The responsibility to protect in the libyan intervention. This article considers the question of african union intervention within the framework of the concept of responsibility to protect. The humanitarian intervention in libya in 2011 and, by contrast, the prolonged. The responsibility to protect has been the subject of a continuous debate in the united. I will particularly apply r2p to the recent case of libya and the current situation in syria. The main topic of my thesis is responsibility to protect from libya to syria. Citing the need to uphold the responsibility to protect populations from mass atrocities, many civil society groups called on the libyan government to halt the violence and, in the face of its clear reluctance to do so. International journal of peace studies, volume 16, number 2, winter 2011 responsibility to protect after libya jake lynch abstract academic writing about the responsibility to protect. Responsibility to protect and its applicability in libya and syria erfaun norooz abstract. Wilson kajwengye twinomugisha a research report submitted to the faculty of management, university of the witwatersrand, in.
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