The Responsibility to Protect

Preface by Desmond Tutu and Václav Havel Irwin Cotler is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Programme at McGill University. He previously served as Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General and currently serves as an M.P. in Canada's Parliament. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale. Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a law firm whose practice focuses on international human rights. Independently, he is founder of Freedom Now, a non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Previously, he was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LL P and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.

Preface ; Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Vaclav Havel and Desmond M. Tutu ; Part I. The Development of the Responsibility to Protect ; 1 Evolution of the Concept of State Sovereignty, Lloyd Axworthy ; 2 Adoption of the Responsibility to Protect, William W. Burke-White ; 3 Defining the Mass-Atrocity Crimes Covered, Tarun Chhabra and Jeremy B. Zucker ; 4 Challenges and Controversies, Nicole Deller ; 5 Implementing the Responsibility to Protect, Edward C. Luck ; Part II. Regional Perspectives ; 6 Africa, Ademola Abass ; 7 Asia and the Pacific, Noel M. Morada ; 8 Europe and North America, Mark V. Vlasic ; 9 Latin America and the Caribbean, Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues ; 10 Middle East, Mohamed S. Helal ; Part III. Case Studies ; 11 Darfur (Sudan), Andrew S. Natsios and Zachary Scott ; 12 Burma (Myanmar), Paulo Sergio Pinheiro and Meghan Barron ; 13 Kenya, Meredith Preston-McGhie and Serena Sharma ; 14 Sri Lanka, Damien Kingsbury ; 15 Democratic Republic of Congo, Delphine Schrank ; 16 Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kjell Magne Bondevik and Kristen Abrams ; Conclusion: Lessons and Challeges ; Gareth Evans