The Responsibility to Protect

by Jared Genser, Irwin Cotler, Desmond Tutu, et al.

In The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time, Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler provide a comprehensive overview on how this contemporary principle of international law has developed and analyze how best to apply it to current and future humanitarian crises. The "responsibility to protect" is a doctrine unanimously adopted by the UN World Summit in 2005, which says that all states have an obligation to protect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199797765
• ISBN13: 9780199797769
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"