A conceptual safari: Africa and R2P

dc.contributor.authorSpies, Yolanda Kemp
dc.contributor.authorDzimiri, Patrick
dc.contributor.emailyolanda.spies@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-27T06:24:55Z
dc.date.available2013-06-27T06:24:55Z
dc.date.issued2011-04-01
dc.description.abstractThe Responsibility to Protect is a new human security paradigm that re-conceptualizes state sovereignty as a responsibility rather than a right. Its seminal endorsement by the 2005 World Summit has however not consolidated the intellectual parameters of the norm. Neither has it succeeded in galvanizing R2P’s doctrinal development; hence the January 2009 appeal by the UN secretary-general for the international community to operationalize R2P at the doctrinal level, in addition to at institutional and policy levels. R2P represents a critical stage in the debate on intervention for human protection purposes, but its key concepts require more exploration. Africa is a uniquely placed stakeholder in R2P on account of its disproportionate share of humanitarian crises and because Africans have played key roles in conceptualizing the norm. The continent should therefore not just off er an arena for, but indeed take the lead in, the conceptual journey that R2P’s doctrinal development requires.en_US
dc.description.librarianhb2013en_US
dc.description.librariangv2013
dc.description.urihttp://journals.berghahnbooks.com/reco/en_US
dc.identifier.citationSpies, Y & Dzimiri, P 2011, 'A conceptual safari Africa and R2P', Regions and Cohesion, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 32-53.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2152-906X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2152-9078 (online)
dc.identifier.other110.3167/reco.2011.010104
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21745
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBerghahn Booksen_US
dc.rights© 2013, Berghahn Books.en_US
dc.subjectInterventionen_US
dc.subjectHuman securityen_US
dc.subjectResponsibility to protecten_US
dc.subject.lcshInternal security -- Africaen
dc.subject.lcshSecurity, Internationalen
dc.titleA conceptual safari: Africa and R2Pen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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