The Responsibility to Protect

This book presents the views of various international law and human rights experts on the conceptual and practical strengths and limitations of the notion that the international community has a Responsibility to Protect civilians against genocide, large scale war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity through intervention where a state is unable or unwilling to afford its people such protection and/or is also a perpetrator. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.