Political Science
Beyond ‘Saving Strangers’: Revisiting R2P as an Accountability Mechanism
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Nearly two decades after its formal endorsement by the international community, the Responsibility to Protect is stuck in a quagmire reminiscent of the contentious politics that both preceded and precipitated it. A once ambitious effort to transform notions of responsibility and practices of accountability regarding civilian protection and atrocity prevention, R2P has stagnated to such a degree that some have dismissed it as a dead letter. This research diagnoses the primary cause of that stagnation while also proposing a way forward for resuscitating R2P’s normative aims, via a return to R2P’s origins as an accountability mechanism for the provision of human rights and security.
Publication Title
Global Responsibility to Protect
Publication Date
2024
ISSN
1875-9858
DOI
10.1163/1875984X-20240011
Keywords
accountability, atrocity prevention, civilian protection, human rights, human security, humanitarian intervention
Repository Citation
Butler, Michael J., "Beyond ‘Saving Strangers’: Revisiting R2P as an Accountability Mechanism" (2024). Political Science. 12.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_political_science/12
