Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in the United Nations System: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities
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This article examines the challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming RtoP within the UN system and proposes a way forward. First, it examines what is meant by ‘mainstreaming’ in the UN context and progress made thus far. Second, it reviews some of the principal dilemmas that have arisen in different parts of the UN system, notably in relation to the system’s political work, humanitarian activities, peacekeeping operations, human rights promotion and protection, and capacity-building. Third, it considers the extent to which the Secretary-General’s vision accommodates these concerns. Finding that, to a great extent, it does, the final section offers some recommendations for moving forward which harnesses the basic principles for mainstreaming outlined by the Secretary-General and develops into four areas: incorporating an ‘atrocity prevention lens’, information sharing, capacity building and lessons learning.
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Ekkehard Strauss, The Emperor’s New Clothes? The United Nations and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009), p. It will be recalled that Para. 140 of the World Summit Outcomes Document had specifically pledged support for the Special Adviser.
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S/PV 577, 4 December 2006.
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Luck, ‘From Promise to Practice’. Also see Edward C. Luck, ‘The Responsibility to Protect: Growing Pains or Early Promise?’ Ethics and International Affairs, 24(4) 2010, pp. 349-365.
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B. G. Ramcharan, The International Law and Practice of Early Warning and Preventive Diplomacy (The Hague: Kluwer, 1991), p. 67.
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Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War (London: Zed, 2008), pp. 172-173.
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See L. Mahoney, Proactive Presence: Field Strategies for Civilian Protection (Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2006), pp.14-27; ICRC, Enhancing Protection: For civilians in armed conflicts and other situations of violence (Geneva: ICRC, 2008), p.27. As discussed below, the potential role of judicial organizations depends in large part upon such witness testimony to provide the evidentiary basis for future prosecutions. See Lisa Mahoney, Proactive Presence: Field strategies for Civilian Protection (Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2006), p.13.
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Hugo Slim and Andrew Bonwick, Protection: An ANLAP Guide for humanitarian agencies (London: Overseas Development Institute, 2006), pp.95-6 and O’Callaghan and Pantuliano, Protective Agenda, p.35.
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N. Leader, The Politics of Principle: The Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice (London: HPG Report 2 for the Overseas Development Institute, 2000), p.47.
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Charles Hunt and Alex J. Bellamy, ‘Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Peace Operations’ Civil Wars 13/1:1 – 20 (2011).
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Hunt and Bellamy, ‘Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Peace Operations’, pp.4-5.
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Hunt and Bellamy, ‘Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Peace Operations’, pp.4-5.
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Lise Morje Howard, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in the United Nations System: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities
In: Global Responsibility to ProtectSearch for other papers by Alex J. Bellamy in
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This article examines the challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming RtoP within the UN system and proposes a way forward. First, it examines what is meant by ‘mainstreaming’ in the UN context and progress made thus far. Second, it reviews some of the principal dilemmas that have arisen in different parts of the UN system, notably in relation to the system’s political work, humanitarian activities, peacekeeping operations, human rights promotion and protection, and capacity-building. Third, it considers the extent to which the Secretary-General’s vision accommodates these concerns. Finding that, to a great extent, it does, the final section offers some recommendations for moving forward which harnesses the basic principles for mainstreaming outlined by the Secretary-General and develops into four areas: incorporating an ‘atrocity prevention lens’, information sharing, capacity building and lessons learning.
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