Cecilia Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Jacob |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5775-0641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prosecuting international crimes against children
In my contribution to the 2015 special issue (Jacob Citation2015),Footnote1 I argued that security studies are structured on themes of statehood, power, and sovereignty in ways that foreclose theoretical space to integrate children’s experiences and contributions. I called for a practice-based reading of the ‘field’ of security in which children’s presence in the wider social-political landscape could be researched. I argued that theorising child…
Contesting the World
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars span…
The Responsibility to Protect at an Inflection Point
Not peer-reviewed
A Responsibility to Support Civilian Resistance Movements? Broadening the Scope of Nonviolent Atrocity Prevention
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of civilian resistance movements (CRMs) within states to counter government repression and coups d’états through which civilians are on the frontlines of state brutality and mass atrocities. This article considers the implications of CRMs for atrocity prevention and the associated responsibility to protect norm by asking, Should the international community support CRMs as part of its wider …
A new politics of international criminal justice
Protecting civilian populations affected by violent conflict and mass atrocities is a challenge in global politics, particularly in view of the persistence of contestation over the application of the Responsibility to Protect principle and geopolitical gridlock in the UN Security Council. Over the past decade, there has been a pronounced rise in international accountability mechanisms to fill protection gaps in the multilateral system. Increasing…
Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia
This article introduces the conceptual and analytical framework for this special issue on hate speech and atrocity prevention in Asia. It defines hate speech and incitement, and explains the process and context through which hate speech and incitement operates as a risk factor for atrocities. It also provides an explanation of the international legal framework regulating hate speech and incitement that informs the approach of the articles in this…
Kill Two Million of Them’
Hate speech and incitement have been instrumental in atrocity crimes that have occurred in India, even prior to its independence. These atrocities include targeted killings of minorities based on religious and ethnic identity, and demonstrate persistent features of systematic, orchestrated violence that is fuelled by a Hindu nationalist ideology. This ideology is routinely promulgated at the highest levels of political leadership. This article tr…
Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
This short article introduces the Special Issue on Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect. The purpose of this special issue is to prompt a conversation across historical and contemporary approaches, with a global perspective, to the question of intervention. It considers how the past informs the present and reflects on multiple ‘futures’ of intervention in the context of R2P
Contestation in Global Norm Making
Antje Wiener presents an ambitious study of the process of norm constitution, contestation, and reconstitution in global politics. Crossing the fields of international \nlaw (IL), international relations (IR), and public philosophy, it engages in sustained theory building to address the book’s core problematique: “whose practices actually \ndo count for normative change” in global politics (3)? Building on the author’s previous work (Wiener 2008,…
Navigating between Pragmatism and Principle
The escalation of violence by Myanmar’s military forces against ethnic Rohingya populations in Rakhine State in 2017 served as a test case for Australia’s commitment to R2P, and its capacity to protect populations from widespread and systematic atrocities in its own regional neighbourhood. Australia’s response to the crisis in Myanmar was mixed; it co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution to establish the Independent International Fact-F…
Pursuing Accountability and Protection for the Uighur and Muslim Minorities in China
This short article introduces the forum on the Uighur population in China and R2P. It provides context to demonstrate why it is important to analyse the current situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China through an R2P lens and states the objectives of the forum. It then provides a brief summary of the contributions in the forum that take into account the domestic context, legal arguments and analysis of the international political c…
Regulatory Contestation
Over the past three decades, there has been a notable expansion in the number and remit of global norms of human protection, informing the rationale and reform of international law and institutions in significant ways. Yet, the inconsistent and selective implementation of these norms undermines their legitimacy and strength. Drawing on interviews with United Nations (UN) officials, diplomats, non-governmental organizations, and experts, this arti…
Institutionalizing Prevention at the UN
This article assesses recent UN reforms to enhance the organization’s capacity to prevent violent conflict. These reforms target crucial inefficiencies within the UN that have hampered effective preventive and protection practices in violent conflict and atrocities. The article argues that state actors have viewed the reform process as a site of norm contestation, and negotiations have created an avenue for compromises on the centrality of human …
Progress, Problems, and Prospects
This short article introduces the GR2P Forum reflecting on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine 15 years after it was institutionalised at the international level through the World Summit Outcome Document. It contextualises the relevance of critical reflections on the R2P at its 15th anniversary and then lays out the aims and objectives of the Forum . It provides an overview of the different contributions, describing the perspectives of t…
A Christian Response to Global Conflict
This article considers avenues for fruitful engagement between international relations and public theology in order to ask what an ethical Christian response to global conflict should entail. The process of mediating principles of biblical justice into a contemporary international context requires interpretation in a reality of territorial bounded states, with rules and norms governing international interactions that are unique to the present day…
Scholarly Circles
This article documents how the formation of a Scholarly Circle led to the development of the articles published in this issue. We outline how our Scholarly Circle developed across three stages over a period of seven years. By doing so, we hope to encourage others to consider the Scholarly Circle as a potential model to guide small communities of scholars seeking to integrate their faith and scholarship in a deeper and more deliberate way
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyses case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm. The volume analyses this process at international, regional and local levels, and identifies an urgent need to progress from conceptual debates towards implementation in practice, in order to understand how to operationalise the preventive dimension of the R2P. It argues that R2P …
Transcending the Double-Bind of Humanitarian Intervention
“The ICC [International Criminal Court] is dead to us,” claimed US National Security Advisor John \nBolton on Monday 10 September 2018 when he confirmed that the US would not cooperate \nwith any efforts to bring US soldiers to trial for atrocities committed in Afghanistan.1 \nBolton’s statement coincides with a recent ruling from the pre-trial chamber of the ICC that \ndetermined jurisdiction for some of the atrocities committed by the Myanmar r…
R2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Prevention has taken centre-stage in present discussions around both United Nations reform and the r 2 p implementation agenda. Contemporary humanitarian crises from Myanmar to Yemen reinforce the horrendous atrocities that children face during periods of armed conflict and mass political upheaval to which the prevention agenda is geared. This article considers the atrocity prevention dimension of r 2 p ; it describes changes in both understandin…
From Norm Contestation to Norm Implementation
This article contributes to the burgeoning norms literature in international relations that conceptualizes the norm life cycle as a nonlinear dynamic process that is open to contestation and change of “meanings in use.” There are limitations to this second generation of norms theory, however, most crucially in the identification of agency and process through which dialogue occurs and change is enacted. This article claims that to conceptualize th…
Do Ingos Work? An Empirical Investigation of Human Security Effects
Do International NGOs (INGOs) really improve human security from fear and want for populations around the world? If so, under what conditions are they likely to have a positive effect? These poignant questions are addressed by Amanda Murdie in her ambitious, rigorous, and far-reaching study that cuts straight to the jugular of long-standing debates in IR over the effectiveness of INGOs. Murdie cuts through bifurcated divisions in the literature t…
Evaluating the United Nation’s Agenda for Atrocity Prevention
In recent years the UN Secretary-General has promoted mass atrocity prevention as the priority agenda for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN, redirecting debates on R2P away from military interventionism towards improved state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes and protect populations. This focus has been illustrated in the UNSG’s annual reports on R2P since 2009, and the 2014 “Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes”, that emphasis…
State Responsibility and Prevention in the Responsibility to Protect
This article responds to the 2013 un Secretary General’s ( unsg ) annual report on the Responsibility to Protect ( r2p ), titled ‘State Responsibility and Prevention’. The orientation of r2p as a tool for addressing risk factors for atrocity crimes in domestic contexts indicates a conceptual deepening and widening of r2p to provide states with an atrocity prevention lens within their jurisdiction. This article examines state policies and practice…
Children and armed conflict' and the field of security studies
Sociological studies in childhood have successfully carved out a research agenda that establishes children as worthy research subjects in their own right. This insight has impacted on international relations (IR) very late compared to similar developments throughout the social sciences given the perceived marginality of children to ‘central’ IR discussions of power, sovereignty, and security. A number of IR scholars have engaged with critical sec…
Practising civilian protection
Inspired by the practice turn in the field of international relations, this article contributes to the growing interest in the sociological and potentially transformative nature of the concept of human security, with a specific emphasis on the protection of civilians affected by armed conflict. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Myanmar on the protection of children affected by armed conflict, it argues for a fresh analysis of human s…
Children and armed conflict' and the field of security studies
Sociological studies in childhood have successfully carved out a research agenda that establishes children as worthy research subjects in their own right. This insight has impacted on international relations (IR) very late compared to similar developments throughout the social sciences given the perceived marginality of children to ‘central’ IR discussions of power, sovereignty, and security. A number of IR scholars have engaged with critical sec…
Practising civilian protection
Inspired by the practice turn in the field of international relations, this article contributes to the growing interest in the sociological and potentially transformative nature of the concept of human security, with a specific emphasis on the protection of civilians affected by armed conflict. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Myanmar on the protection of children affected by armed conflict, it argues for a fresh analysis of human s…
Regulatory Contestation
Over the past three decades, there has been a notable expansion in the number and remit of global norms of human protection, informing the rationale and reform of international law and institutions in significant ways. Yet, the inconsistent and selective implementation of these norms undermines their legitimacy and strength. Drawing on interviews with United Nations (UN) officials, diplomats, non-governmental organizations, and experts, this arti…
Institutionalizing Prevention at the UN
This article assesses recent UN reforms to enhance the organization’s capacity to prevent violent conflict. These reforms target crucial inefficiencies within the UN that have hampered effective preventive and protection practices in violent conflict and atrocities. The article argues that state actors have viewed the reform process as a site of norm contestation, and negotiations have created an avenue for compromises on the centrality of human …
R2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Prevention has taken centre-stage in present discussions around both United Nations reform and the r 2 p implementation agenda. Contemporary humanitarian crises from Myanmar to Yemen reinforce the horrendous atrocities that children face during periods of armed conflict and mass political upheaval to which the prevention agenda is geared. This article considers the atrocity prevention dimension of r 2 p ; it describes changes in both understandin…
State Responsibility and Prevention in the Responsibility to Protect
This article responds to the 2013 un Secretary General’s ( unsg ) annual report on the Responsibility to Protect ( r2p ), titled ‘State Responsibility and Prevention’. The orientation of r2p as a tool for addressing risk factors for atrocity crimes in domestic contexts indicates a conceptual deepening and widening of r2p to provide states with an atrocity prevention lens within their jurisdiction. This article examines state policies and practice…
A new politics of international criminal justice
Protecting civilian populations affected by violent conflict and mass atrocities is a challenge in global politics, particularly in view of the persistence of contestation over the application of the Responsibility to Protect principle and geopolitical gridlock in the UN Security Council. Over the past decade, there has been a pronounced rise in international accountability mechanisms to fill protection gaps in the multilateral system. Increasing…
Kill Two Million of Them’
Hate speech and incitement have been instrumental in atrocity crimes that have occurred in India, even prior to its independence. These atrocities include targeted killings of minorities based on religious and ethnic identity, and demonstrate persistent features of systematic, orchestrated violence that is fuelled by a Hindu nationalist ideology. This ideology is routinely promulgated at the highest levels of political leadership. This article tr…
Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
This short article introduces the Special Issue on Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect. The purpose of this special issue is to prompt a conversation across historical and contemporary approaches, with a global perspective, to the question of intervention. It considers how the past informs the present and reflects on multiple ‘futures’ of intervention in the context of R2P
Navigating between Pragmatism and Principle
The escalation of violence by Myanmar’s military forces against ethnic Rohingya populations in Rakhine State in 2017 served as a test case for Australia’s commitment to R2P, and its capacity to protect populations from widespread and systematic atrocities in its own regional neighbourhood. Australia’s response to the crisis in Myanmar was mixed; it co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution to establish the Independent International Fact-F…
Pursuing Accountability and Protection for the Uighur and Muslim Minorities in China
This short article introduces the forum on the Uighur population in China and R2P. It provides context to demonstrate why it is important to analyse the current situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China through an R2P lens and states the objectives of the forum. It then provides a brief summary of the contributions in the forum that take into account the domestic context, legal arguments and analysis of the international political c…
A Critical Engagement With Women and War
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. Kelly Oliver, 2007. New York: Columbia University Press. Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Robin L. Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Child Security in Asia
Millions of children around the world are affected by conflict, and the enduring aftermath of war in post-conflict societies. This book reflects on the implications of children’s insecurity for governments and the international humanitarian community by drawing on original field research in post-conflict Cambodia and in Burma’s eastern conflict zones. The book examines the way that politics and discourses of security and child protection have fur…
Child Security in Asia
Introduction 1. Childhood, Security and Protection: Concepts and Theoretical Approach 2. Locating Children in Global Politics: A Political Sociological Approach 3. Conceptualising Child Security: Rights, Agency, Participation and Protection 4. Power, Protection and the Discourse of Security in Cambodia 5. Post-Conflict Governance and Child Protection in Cambodia 6. Conflict, Militarization and Displacement: Child Insecurity in Myanmar 7. Respondi…
Child Security in Asia
Practising civilian protection
Inspired by the practice turn in the field of international relations, this article contributes to the growing interest in the sociological and potentially transformative nature of the concept of human security, with a specific emphasis on the protection of civilians affected by armed conflict. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Myanmar on the protection of children affected by armed conflict, it argues for a fresh analysis of human s…
Evaluating the United Nation’s Agenda for Atrocity Prevention
In recent years the UN Secretary-General has promoted mass atrocity prevention as the priority agenda for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN, redirecting debates on R2P away from military interventionism towards improved state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes and protect populations. This focus has been illustrated in the UNSG’s annual reports on R2P since 2009, and the 2014 “Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes”, that emphasis…
State Responsibility and Prevention in the Responsibility to Protect
This article responds to the 2013 un Secretary General’s ( unsg ) annual report on the Responsibility to Protect ( r2p ), titled ‘State Responsibility and Prevention’. The orientation of r2p as a tool for addressing risk factors for atrocity crimes in domestic contexts indicates a conceptual deepening and widening of r2p to provide states with an atrocity prevention lens within their jurisdiction. This article examines state policies and practice…
Children and armed conflict' and the field of security studies
Sociological studies in childhood have successfully carved out a research agenda that establishes children as worthy research subjects in their own right. This insight has impacted on international relations (IR) very late compared to similar developments throughout the social sciences given the perceived marginality of children to ‘central’ IR discussions of power, sovereignty, and security. A number of IR scholars have engaged with critical sec…
Do Ingos Work? An Empirical Investigation of Human Security Effects
Do International NGOs (INGOs) really improve human security from fear and want for populations around the world? If so, under what conditions are they likely to have a positive effect? These poignant questions are addressed by Amanda Murdie in her ambitious, rigorous, and far-reaching study that cuts straight to the jugular of long-standing debates in IR over the effectiveness of INGOs. Murdie cuts through bifurcated divisions in the literature t…
R2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Prevention has taken centre-stage in present discussions around both United Nations reform and the r 2 p implementation agenda. Contemporary humanitarian crises from Myanmar to Yemen reinforce the horrendous atrocities that children face during periods of armed conflict and mass political upheaval to which the prevention agenda is geared. This article considers the atrocity prevention dimension of r 2 p ; it describes changes in both understandin…
From Norm Contestation to Norm Implementation
This article contributes to the burgeoning norms literature in international relations that conceptualizes the norm life cycle as a nonlinear dynamic process that is open to contestation and change of “meanings in use.” There are limitations to this second generation of norms theory, however, most crucially in the identification of agency and process through which dialogue occurs and change is enacted. This article claims that to conceptualize th…
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyses case studies regarding the implementation of this important global norm. The volume analyses this process at international, regional and local levels, and identifies an urgent need to progress from conceptual debates towards implementation in practice, in order to understand how to operationalise the preventive dimension of the R2P. It argues that R2P …
Transcending the Double-Bind of Humanitarian Intervention
“The ICC [International Criminal Court] is dead to us,” claimed US National Security Advisor John \nBolton on Monday 10 September 2018 when he confirmed that the US would not cooperate \nwith any efforts to bring US soldiers to trial for atrocities committed in Afghanistan.1 \nBolton’s statement coincides with a recent ruling from the pre-trial chamber of the ICC that \ndetermined jurisdiction for some of the atrocities committed by the Myanmar r…
Progress, Problems, and Prospects
This short article introduces the GR2P Forum reflecting on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine 15 years after it was institutionalised at the international level through the World Summit Outcome Document. It contextualises the relevance of critical reflections on the R2P at its 15th anniversary and then lays out the aims and objectives of the Forum . It provides an overview of the different contributions, describing the perspectives of t…
A Christian Response to Global Conflict
This article considers avenues for fruitful engagement between international relations and public theology in order to ask what an ethical Christian response to global conflict should entail. The process of mediating principles of biblical justice into a contemporary international context requires interpretation in a reality of territorial bounded states, with rules and norms governing international interactions that are unique to the present day…
Scholarly Circles
This article documents how the formation of a Scholarly Circle led to the development of the articles published in this issue. We outline how our Scholarly Circle developed across three stages over a period of seven years. By doing so, we hope to encourage others to consider the Scholarly Circle as a potential model to guide small communities of scholars seeking to integrate their faith and scholarship in a deeper and more deliberate way
Navigating between Pragmatism and Principle
The escalation of violence by Myanmar’s military forces against ethnic Rohingya populations in Rakhine State in 2017 served as a test case for Australia’s commitment to R2P, and its capacity to protect populations from widespread and systematic atrocities in its own regional neighbourhood. Australia’s response to the crisis in Myanmar was mixed; it co-sponsored a UN Human Rights Council resolution to establish the Independent International Fact-F…
Pursuing Accountability and Protection for the Uighur and Muslim Minorities in China
This short article introduces the forum on the Uighur population in China and R2P. It provides context to demonstrate why it is important to analyse the current situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China through an R2P lens and states the objectives of the forum. It then provides a brief summary of the contributions in the forum that take into account the domestic context, legal arguments and analysis of the international political c…
Regulatory Contestation
Over the past three decades, there has been a notable expansion in the number and remit of global norms of human protection, informing the rationale and reform of international law and institutions in significant ways. Yet, the inconsistent and selective implementation of these norms undermines their legitimacy and strength. Drawing on interviews with United Nations (UN) officials, diplomats, non-governmental organizations, and experts, this arti…
Institutionalizing Prevention at the UN
This article assesses recent UN reforms to enhance the organization’s capacity to prevent violent conflict. These reforms target crucial inefficiencies within the UN that have hampered effective preventive and protection practices in violent conflict and atrocities. The article argues that state actors have viewed the reform process as a site of norm contestation, and negotiations have created an avenue for compromises on the centrality of human …
Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
This short article introduces the Special Issue on Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect. The purpose of this special issue is to prompt a conversation across historical and contemporary approaches, with a global perspective, to the question of intervention. It considers how the past informs the present and reflects on multiple ‘futures’ of intervention in the context of R2P
Contestation in Global Norm Making
Antje Wiener presents an ambitious study of the process of norm constitution, contestation, and reconstitution in global politics. Crossing the fields of international \nlaw (IL), international relations (IR), and public philosophy, it engages in sustained theory building to address the book’s core problematique: “whose practices actually \ndo count for normative change” in global politics (3)? Building on the author’s previous work (Wiener 2008,…
Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia
This article introduces the conceptual and analytical framework for this special issue on hate speech and atrocity prevention in Asia. It defines hate speech and incitement, and explains the process and context through which hate speech and incitement operates as a risk factor for atrocities. It also provides an explanation of the international legal framework regulating hate speech and incitement that informs the approach of the articles in this…
Kill Two Million of Them’
Hate speech and incitement have been instrumental in atrocity crimes that have occurred in India, even prior to its independence. These atrocities include targeted killings of minorities based on religious and ethnic identity, and demonstrate persistent features of systematic, orchestrated violence that is fuelled by a Hindu nationalist ideology. This ideology is routinely promulgated at the highest levels of political leadership. This article tr…
Contesting the World
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars span…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (14 works) · Human rights (13 works) · International law (13 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (11 works) · Law and economics (8 works)