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by Gareth Evans

Author: Gareth Evans
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press (September 4, 2009)
Language: English
Pages: 349
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Gareth Evans's book is a passionate, lucidly argued, and immensely well-informed guide to how the world can do. .Gareth Evans, one of the principal creators of the Responsibility to Protect, has written the first major work on this noble, important, and elusive concept.
Gareth Evans's book is a passionate, lucidly argued, and immensely well-informed guide to how the world can do better. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town. Anyone interested in international affairs should read this book on what is certain to be a continuing debate. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, . Permanent Representative to the United Nations,1999–2001.
The Responsibility to Protect captures a simple and powerful idea. The primary responsibility for protecting its own people from mass atrocity crimes lies with the state itself. State sovereignty implies responsibility, not a license to kill
The Responsibility to Protect captures a simple and powerful idea. State sovereignty implies responsibility, not a license to kill. But when a state is unwilling or unable to halt or avert such crimes, the wider international community then has a collective responsibility to take whatever action is necessary
The book has elements of a diplomatic memoir, briefly describing the arc of Evans’.
The book has elements of a diplomatic memoir, briefly describing the arc of Evans’. career beginning as a young civil society activist, politician, foreign minister and now. again as a rather older civil society activist as president, until June 2009, of. International Crisis Group. p223) Unusually for the genre, there is little settling of scores. Though the title aim of ending mass atrocity once and for all is admirable, responsibility to protect - the doctrine and the book - will assuredly not guarantee that. future Rwandas (or Kosovos, or Iraqs) do not take place. Yet it does offer a vocabulary. But when a state is unwilling or unable to halt or avert such crimes, the wider international community then has a collective responsibility to take whatever action is necessary
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Gareth Evans’s direct involvement in the trajectory of R2P started with his role as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), which released The Responsibility to Protect report in December 2001
Gareth Evans’s direct involvement in the trajectory of R2P started with his role as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), which released The Responsibility to Protect report in December 2001.
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The Responsibility to Protect - Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for . Gareth Evans’s book is a passionate, lucidly argued and immensely well informed guide to how the world can do better.
Gareth Evans has been president and CEO of the International Crisis Group since 2000 and was foreign minister of Australia from 1988 to1996. Co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), which initiated the Responsibility to Protect concept, he has since led the movement for its worldwide adoption and application.
Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shoc. Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia. As president of the International Crisis Group, he now works on the prevention and resolution of scores of conflicts and crises worldwide. The primary architect of and leading authority on the Responsibility to Protect ("R2P"), he shows here how this new international norm can once and for all prevent a return to the killing fields. The Responsibility to Protectcaptures a simple and powerful idea.
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All. By Gareth Evans. The notion of a responsibility to protect is still widely debated, and Evans is at pains to point out the misconceptions of its opponents. He stresses that the doctrine is aimed primarily at establishing not a normative foundation for coercive military intervention but rather a sustained commitment by the international community to work with weak states to prevent the outbreak of mass atrocities.
"Never again!" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciencesfrom the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.
Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia. As president of the International Crisis Group, he now works on the prevention and resolution of scores of conflicts and crises worldwide. The primary architect of and leading authority on the Responsibility to Protect ("R2P"), he shows here how this new international norm can once and for all prevent a return to the killing fields.
The Responsibility to Protect captures a simple and powerful idea. The primary responsibility for protecting its own people from mass atrocity crimes lies with the state itself. State sovereignty implies responsibility, not a license to kill. But when a state is unwilling or unable to halt or avert such crimes, the wider international community then has a collective responsibility to take whatever action is necessary. R2P emphasizes preventive action above all. That includes assistance for states struggling to contain potential crises and for effective rebuilding after a crisis or conflict to tackle its underlying causes. R2P's primary tools are persuasion and support, not military or other coercion. But sometimes it is right to fight: faced with another Rwanda, the world cannot just stand by.
R2P was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit. But many misunderstandings persist about its scope and limits. And much remains to be done to solidify political support and to build institutional capacity. Evans shows, compellingly, how big a break R2P represents from the past, and how, with its acceptance in principle and effective application in practice, the promise of "Never again!" can at last become a reality.