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Journal of Conflict and Security Law Advance Access originally published online on June 30, 2008
Journal of Conflict and Security Law 2008 13(1):123-152; doi:10.1093/jcsl/krn012
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The Responsibility to Protect: The Role of International Human Rights Law

Emma McClean*

* Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.

Correspondence: E-mail: E.McClean{at}westminster.ac.uk.


  Abstract

This article explores the potential of the responsibility to protect, having gained the support of the member states of the United Nations (UN) at the 2005 World Summit, as a framework for the UN to address genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It is argued that in order for the UN to harness this potential of the responsibility to protect a number of obstacles and challenges – normative, institutional and operational – must be overcome and that international human rights law has a central, if not pivotal, role in this regard thereby strengthening the responsibility to protect as a framework for the UN to address genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

A version of this article was presented at the annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Cambridge University, December 2007.


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