Human rights and humanitarian norms, strategic framing, and intervention : lessons for the responsibility to protect / Melissa Labonte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labonte, Melissa, author.

Series:

Global institutions series ; 71.

Routledge global institutions series ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Human rights--Government policy.

Human rights.

Human rights--International cooperation.

Responsibility to protect (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In many cases concerned states responded, either through moral suasion; gentle or coercive diplomacy; or other non-forcible measures, to prevent or halt the indiscriminate human rights violations that were occurring. In others, states simply turned away and left the vulnerable to their fate. And sti

Contents:

Cover; Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Contemporary humanitarian intervention in theory and practice; 2 Making a good argument and mobilizing political will; 3 Humanitarian intervention in Somalia; 4 Failure to intervene in Rwanda; 5 Mixed intervention in Sierra Leone; 6 Strategic framing, norms, and civilian protection: Can R2P succeed where humanitarian intervention has failed?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Routledge Global Institutions Series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-17061-8

1-283-91966-4

0-203-08094-7

1-136-17062-6

9780203080948

OCLC:

823389999