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Professor Sandole's chapter deals with the 57-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest and most comprehensive "soft" security organization -- comprising all of NATO, the former Warsaw Pact and neutral and nonaligned nations -- and its conceptual and empirical fit with a contribution to international law agreed to at the UN World Summit in 2005, the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P).
R2P deals with the responsibility of the international community to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, especially when populations are at risk from violence by their own governments. Appropriate collective action, including but not limited to force, should be taken within the context of the UN.
This volume provides an institutional perspective on the ability of key actors to protect populations from mass atrocities, including the main organs of the UN, important regional and security organisations, the main international judicial institutions and the regional human rights protection systems.
- Examines the responsibility to protect from an institutional perspective, which has hitherto received little attention
- Assesses the ability of existing institutions to effectively protect populations from mass atrocities and helps the reader understand and compare the different situations which fall under the responsibility to protect
- Takes into account recent developments, including the intervention in Libya and the situation in Syria
