Responsibility to Protect
In 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty argued that when nations failed to protect their citizens from large-scale violence and genocide, the international community should take on that "responsibility to protect." As policymakers embrace the idea of such a responsibility, more attention is needed on how military missions should protect civilians and what multinational organizations and national armed services are doing to prepare for such operations.
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September 08, 2010
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Alison Giffen
UN Peacekeepers’ Achilles’ Heel can’t be Protected by More Boots on the Ground
Is the UN prepared to stop the use of one of the oldest weapons of war? Mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlights the need for UN member states to focus on doing more to
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June 05, 2008
Aid Invasion?
A month after Cyclone Nargis pummeled Burma/Myanmar on May 2, less than half of the estimated 2.4 million people affected have received any humanitarian assistance. The World Health
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June 26, 2007
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Victoria Holt
No Time to Think: Military Leaders & Halting Mass Atrocities
The blue skies and waters outside Accra, Ghana hug the entrance to the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, where former mission leaders of military peacekeeping
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April 26, 2007
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Victoria Holt,
Joshua G. Smith
Darfur, Iraq or Rwanda: What Can Militaries do to Protect Civilians?
What do Sudan and Iraq have in common? In both countries, international military forces are grappling with the question of how best to protect civilians from extreme levels of violence
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September 01, 2006
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Victoria Holt,
Tobias C. Berkman
The Impossible Mandate?
Is the world prepared to use military force to protect civilians from mass violence? In 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty argued that when nations
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