The Responsibility to Protect, Second Edition: Perspectives on the Concept’s Meaning, Proper Application...

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Sonja Grover (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)

The Responsibility to Protect, Second Edition

Perspectives on the Concept’s Meaning, Proper Application and Value

Sonja Grover (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)

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Routledge
26 February 2025

Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; International human rights law; International humanitarian law

This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the contested meaning, scope of application, value and viability of R2P; the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P refers to the notion that the international community has a legal responsibility to protect civilians against the potential or ongoing occurrence of the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, large scale war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. R2P allows for intervention where the individual State is unable or unwilling to so protect its people or is in fact a perpetrator.

The book also addresses the controversial issue of whether intervention by States implementing R2P with or without the endorsement of the United Nations Security Council constitutes a State act of aggression or instead is legally justified and not an infringement on the offending State’s sovereign jurisdiction. The adverse impact on global peace and security of the failure to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes has put in stark relief the need to address anew the principle of ‘responsibility to protect’ and the feasibility and wisdom of its application and this book is a significant contribution to that effort.

This second edition comes with an updated Introduction and a new Afterword, making it an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, human rights advocates, and students of law and international relations, seeking to deepen their understanding of a principle that is vital to safeguarding human rights in our world today.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Edited by: Sonja Grover (Lakehead University Thunder Bay Ontario Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9781032977591
ISBN 10: 1032977590
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 26 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sonja Grover is Professor in the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Ontario, Canada and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has published extensively in various areas of international law including 17 books with two additional forthcoming and scores of peer-reviewed journal articles in this field as well as several book chapters, and guest edited special issues of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has a special interest in children’s fundamental human rights under international law and in the protection of civilians.