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R2P: From Idea to Norm—and Action?

R2P: From Idea to Norm—and Action? Global Responsibility to Protect 1 (2009) 22–53 www.brill.nl/gr2p © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/187598409X405460 R2P: From Idea to Norm—and Action? Ramesh Th akur and Th omas G. Weiss * rthakur@balsillieschool.ca and tweiss@gc.cuny.edu Received 12 May 2008, accepted 17 October 2008 Abstract Th e most dramatic normative development of our time—comparable to the Nuremberg trials and the 1948 Convention on Genocide in the immediate aftermath of World War II—relates to the ‘responsibility to protect’, the title of the 2001 report from the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. It no longer is necessary to fi nesse the tensions between sovereignty and human rights in the UN Charter; they can now be confronted because sover- eignty no longer implies the license to kill. Th is essay outlines the origins of the R2P idea, describes the background factors in the 1990s that paved the way for the advancement of this norm by norm entrepreneurs, champions, and brokers. It continues with an account of the process by which the ICISS arrived at its landmark report, a description of the sustained engage- ment with the R2P agenda from 2001, when the ICISS report was published, to its adoption at the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Responsibility to Protect Brill

R2P: From Idea to Norm—and Action?

Thakur, Ramesh; Weiss, Thomas
Global Responsibility to Protect , Volume 1 (1): 22 – Jan 1, 2009
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Global Responsibility to Protect 1 (2009) 22–53 www.brill.nl/gr2p © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/187598409X405460 R2P: From Idea to Norm—and Action? Ramesh Th akur and Th omas G. Weiss * rthakur@balsillieschool.ca and tweiss@gc.cuny.edu Received 12 May 2008, accepted 17 October 2008 Abstract Th e most dramatic normative development of our time—comparable to the Nuremberg trials and the 1948 Convention on Genocide in the immediate aftermath of World War II—relates to the ‘responsibility to protect’, the title of the 2001 report from the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. It no longer is necessary to fi nesse the tensions between sovereignty and human rights in the UN Charter; they can now be confronted because sover- eignty no longer implies the license to kill. Th is essay outlines the origins of the R2P idea, describes the background factors in the 1990s that paved the way for the advancement of this norm by norm entrepreneurs, champions, and brokers. It continues with an account of the process by which the ICISS arrived at its landmark report, a description of the sustained engage- ment with the R2P agenda from 2001, when the ICISS report was published, to its adoption at the

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: KOFI ANNAN; UN SECURITY COUNCIL; GLOBAL CENTRE FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT; 1948 CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT; HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON THREATS; UN SECRETARY-GENERAL; HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION; SOVEREIGNTY AS RESPONSIBILITY; CYCLONE NARGIS; CHALLENGES AND CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON INTERVENTION AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY; UN CHARTER

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