The purpose of this project is to analyze what underlying issues exist in the implementation of the norm responsibility to protect and its inconsistent application across a series of humanitarian crises throughout the years. For this project, the method of research being conduct…
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This research makes use of a Constructivist approach to norm development, in particular the concept of the norm life cycle, to assess the emergence and development of the responsibility to protect as a norm in international society in relation to the conduct of interventions on …
The papers that comprise this dissertation track the development of the emerging international legal principle of a "responsibility to protect" over the past decade. The argument is primarily concerned with the influential conception of the responsibility to protect introduced b…
The international community is failing to meet its moral and legal obligations to some of the world's most vulnerable people in combating human trafficking. The beginning of this paper examines the issue of trafficking, how it affects women and children displaced by conflict and…
A dramatic shift in international practice emerged in the 1990s when the United Nations Security Council authorized military humanitarian intervention to stop gross human rights violations. During the Cold War, the Security Council did not halt mass killing and sanctioned states…
Today there exists a legal norm that declares the existence of a global responsibility to protect civilians from mass atrocities. Previous doctrines of non-intervention and permissibility were inadequate and demonstrated the need for a new outlook. From a commission proposal to …