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1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Series |
Global Institutions |
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Global institutions series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Responsibility to protect: Cultural perspectives in the global South; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword by the series editor; Foreword by Mohamed Sahnoun; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Grounding responsibility and protection inculture and politics; Part One: Reflections in religion, philosophy, and art; 1. Religion, spirituality, and R2P in a global village; 2. Philosophy, ethics, and R2P; 3. Creation amidst destruction: Southern aesthetics and R2P; Part Two: Country cases; 4. Rwanda: Culture against machetes; 5. Interventions in Kosova: Un/welcomed guests? |
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6. Atrocities prevented in Nepal? The impact of civic and cultural institutions7. Conclusion: The contribution of cultural perspectives to R2P; Index |
| Summary |
This volume explores in a novel and challenging way the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), initially adopted by the United Nations World Summit in 2005 following significant debate throughout the preceding decade. This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes. The contributors to this collection analyze the responsibility to protect through multiple disciplines--philosophy, religion and spirituality, an |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Responsibility to protect (International law)
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Genocide intervention.
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Human rights.
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Political violence -- Developing countries -- Prevention
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Human rights -- Developing countries
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Genocide intervention
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Human rights
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Political violence -- Prevention
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Responsibility to protect (International law)
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiss, Thomas G
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| ISBN |
9780203807286 |
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0203807286 |
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