Responsibility to Protect

• March 9, 2021

SINGAPORE — The situation in Myanmar is growing more violent and polarized. If the situation continues without urgent intervention, the safety and security of civilians will deteriorate rapidly and a window for dialogue between the military and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy and its supporters will close further. If this …

Myanmar, Responsibility to Protect, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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WORLDVIEWS

The UN’s Emphasis on Prevention Could Use Lessons From the Case of Guinea

Gustavo Macedo

• June 18, 2018

Historically neglected, gender-based violence is now becoming broadly recognized as a legitimate and urgent agenda item among the United Nations member nations, notably in the UN’s most powerful forum, the Security Council. But the future of the agenda is uncertain, as priorities remain unclear and inadequate methods for preventing sexual violence against women keep …

Africa, Gender Violence, Responsibility to Protect, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Building a Case for Prosecuting the Genocide of Yazidi Women

Barbara Crossette

• August 1, 2017

As the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq crumbles, assessments begin to emerge of the damage left in its wake by its cultural nihilism and harsh sectarian absolutism designed to remake an Arab society. The human costs have been high in Iraq — in deaths, maiming, displacement and the enslavement of girls and women. …

Gender Violence, Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council, Terrorism, Women

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BOOKS

The Rules of War Need a Major Overhaul

Irwin Arieff

• December 3, 2016

Evidence is piling up: the global security framework that emerged from the ashes of World War II is no longer capable of pursuing international peace. The arrangement, conceived by the major powers that won the war, has expanded into a grab bag of rules and institutions that the crises of our own era have …

BOOKS, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council

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To End Deep Inequalities, Say Doyle and Stiglitz, Create a Ninth Development Goal

Barbara Crossette

• May 7, 2014

Two leading international policy experts at Columbia University are calling for more action from individual governments to address inequalities within their borders, in effect adding a bold new goal to the eight measurements of progress reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. Their proposal comes as debate swirls around what the United Nations needs to …

Development, Poverty, Responsibility to Protect

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Deep Flaws in UN Response to Sri Lanka Include R2P Failure

Alice Volkov

• December 20, 2012

The United Nation’s internal report on its role during the final stages of the prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka was unusually critical of the Secretariat and highlighted major shortcomings in the UN’s response to the fighting. The report, which was leaked to the BBC days before its official release on Nov. 15, forced …

Asia, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-General

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Protecting Civilians: How It Works

Hugh Breakey - Charles Sampford - Ramesh Thakur

• December 10, 2012

CANBERRA, Australia — A steady rise has been occurring in the last two centuries in the proportion of civilians killed in armed conflict, either from direct violence or conflict-related hunger and disease. The international community has responded to the calls to protect innocent victims by developing two parallel principles, the protection of civilians and …

Responsibility to Protect, WORLDVIEWS

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UN Security Council Sends an Observer Team to Syria

Dulcie Leimbach

• April 14, 2012

The Security Council passed a resolution on Saturday allowing a team of 30 unarmed military observers to enter Syria as soon as Sunday to monitor the cease-fire that has more or less been respected since Thursday. Up to 250 observers, drawn mostly from United Nations peacekeeping troops in the region, are to eventually make …

Responsibility to Protect, Security Council

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The Responsibility to Protect Gets a Checkup

Barbara Crossette

• January 21, 2012

When the carnage of the 1990s wound down, with more than a million people dead in massacres and brutal ethnic or political wars in and around Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere, nations that had failed to act to stop such tragedies began seeking ways to prevent future catastrophes. From this terrible decade, the long-postponed …