The ICC and alternative justice in Uganda
“Prosecution or punitive justice is just a drop in the ocean. The ICC will only play a very small part in the justice equation of northern Uganda. One of the key concerns that… Continue reading
Category Archive: Humanitarian Intervention
NATO-intervention in Libya: a mistake or a job half-done?
“The mistake was not to complete the job. That was a terrible mistake. Libya did not need thousands of weapons … If Libya was without those weapons, the competition would have been political.”… Continue reading
Libya: Prospects of a political solution to the crisis
“Whoever controls the money in a sense controls politics in Libya” Professor Dirk Vandewalle (Dartmouth College) examines the current conflict in Libya between the two parallel governments fighting for state control. The recent… Continue reading
Mary Kaldor on Syria: time to intervene?
Is Syria a ‘New War’? And should there be a humanitarian intervention? Mary Kaldor (Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics) shares her vision. Kaldor: Is Syria a New War? Plea… Continue reading
James Pattison on the R2P and rising powers
“Some hold that the rising powers will be the death to the R2P, but on the other hands are the optimists – who say that as rising powers gain influence, they will need… Continue reading
Heather Roff on the Responsibility to Protect
“Syria and Libya are just fundamentally different both operationally as well as politically,” Dr Heather Roff Perkins (Visiting Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver) answers in response to… Continue reading
Simon Adams on the merits of R2P, Syria and veto reform
“Our benchmark is international community failure. But I’d like to think that even though there are still mass atrocities in the world, we are certainly getting better at preventing them from happening. And when… Continue reading
Eki Omorogbe on R2P, Syrian deadlock, and alternatives
On the deadlock over Syria: “This in my mind takes us back to the 1990s: Rwanda, Srebrenica, Kosovo.. Unless we are willing to act illegally but legitimately, then the people will be at… Continue reading
Aidan Hehir: R2P doomed to fail in a state-based international system?
“The history of R2P demonstrates the limits of moral advocacy … [it] has no legal basis, really” Aidan Hehir (Director of Security and International Relations at the University of Westminster) critically reflects on… Continue reading
Jason Ralph: fading consensus on R2P and failure over Syria?
“R2P does not begin and end with military intervention. There are many ways of fulfilling the responsibility. I tend to think that using military force in Syria would have made things worse for… Continue reading
R2P in Libya: why not in Syria?
On Syria: “We simply did not take this seriously and now we have a nightmare scenario that is going to take a long time to fix” Kyle Matthews (Senior Deputy Director at the… Continue reading
Limitations of the Responsibility to Protect
“I’m worried at the moment we’re reaching a turning point, particularly over Syria, where the rethoric of R2P is starting to become too far detached from the reality of R2P for them to be… Continue reading
Mali: when has the UN succeeded?
“I think we stand a good chance of helping Mali to restore order and regain control over the whole of their territory”. “The whole of the news on the mission is geared towards… Continue reading