Title: The Responsibility to Protect and the Responsibility While Protecting: An Analysis of Humanitarian Intervention and the Developing World
Abstract: This paper looks at how the notion of a responsibility while protecting may play a bridging role between developed and emerging countries, rebalancing the concept of the responsibility to protect and strengthening its role in international politics. On the other hand, a critical approach to both the responsibility to protect and the responsibility while protecting will be presented in an effort to show how their discourse still contains blind spots and biases that have not been taken into account by the institutionalised debate.The first chapter will provide an account of the context that steered the formulation of the responsibility to protect and will detail the initial proposal of the ICISS. Subsequently, we will narrate the important moments in the development of the concept, such as the war in Iraq in 2003 and the World Summit in 2005. The following part will continue this narrative, with a focus on the recent conflict in Libya as the catalyst to the Brazilian suggestion of a responsibility while protecting.The paper will then examine how the responsibility to protect may be enriched by its complementary notion, exploring the potential for bridging the divide between Western and emerging powers on humanitarian intervention. Notwithstanding this potential, the final chapter will end this paper by stressing the limited nature of the institutional debate so far. This input of critical analysis is intended to foster new enquiries on the parallel development of the responsibility to protect and the responsibility while protecting.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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