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- Title: Rtop Alive and Well After Libya.
- Author : Ethics & International Affairs
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
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With the exception of Raphael Lemkin's efforts on behalf of the 1948 Genocide Convention, no idea has moved faster in the international normative arena than "the responsibility to protect" (RtoP), which was formulated in zorn by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). (1) Friends and foes have pointed to the commission's conceptual contribution to reframing sovereignty as contingent rather than absolute, and to establishing a framework for forestalling or stopping mass atrocities via a three-pronged responsibility--to prevent, to react, and to rebuild. But until the international military action against Libya in March 201l, the sharp end of the RtoP stick--the use of military force--had been replaced by evasiveness and skittishness from diplomats, scholars, and policy analysts. The increasing and, at times, virtually exclusive emphasis on prevention in the interpretation of RtoP was politically correct but counterproductive. Libya changed that. Security Council Resolution i973 authorized prompt, robust, and effective international action to protect Libya's people from the kind of murderous harm that Muammar el-Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed civilians early in March 2011 and that he has continued to use against the "cockroaches" who oppose him (his description eerily echoing the term used in 1994 by Rwanda's murderous regime).