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1. 1. The Responsibility to Protect - A Critical Case Study of the Central African Republic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hanna Norelius; [2014]
   Keywords : R2P; sovereignty; Central African Republic; solidarists; pluralists; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Governments around the world committed to the Responsibility to Protect principle at the World Summit in 2005. The principle declares that states have the primary responsible to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and that this responsibility is transferred to the international community if a state would be unable or unwilling to protect its population. READ MORE

3. 2. When Theory Meets the Janjaweed - An Analysis of the Factors that Determine UN Humanitarian Intervention in Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Anna-Linn Persson; [2006]
   Keywords : UN Humanitarian Intervention; Political Will; Somalia; Rwanda; Darfur; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Although many may argue that there is a developing norm of "the responsibility to protect", there has not been any decision by the UN Security Council to intervene militarily in the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The aim of this thesis is to examine the factors that concern UN humanitarian intervention in Africa, and why the Security Council has not intervened to stop the atrocities committed by the government of Sudan and its allied Janjaweed militias. READ MORE