Gerrit Kurtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerrit Kurtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerrit |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtz |
| SIGNATURE | KURTZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Global Public Policy Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9575-853X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Politics matters! Political will as a critical condition for implementing the sustainable development goals
While commentaries often bemoan the lack of political will to “transform our world”, there is little analysis of country-level politics around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article aims to fill that gap through assessing the preferences and priorities of governments and local elites, as well as related conflicts around the SDGs. We want to investigate what political elites want to achieve through the SDGs. For this, we build on e…
Is conflict prevention a science, craft, or art? Moving beyond technocracy and wishful thinking
In the current wave of renewed interest in conflict prevention, we argue that key lessons from 20 years of practice and research have not been learned yet. Official documents and parts of the literature are too often confined to a technocratic understanding of conflict prevention drawing on positivist conflict forecasting (science) and toolbox approaches to “what works” (craft). Moreover, wishful thinking affects the expected influence of externa…
The Evolution of Norms of Protection
Global expectations for protecting populations from mass atrocities have significantly expanded. This special issue analyses the debates about a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) that resulted from this normative change. At specific events throughout the past decade (the 2005 World Summit and the 2011 proposal for “responsibility while protecting” as well as crises in Darfur, Kenya, Myanmar, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Libya), the norms of protection …
International Responsibility as Solidarity
The 2005 World Summit's endorsement of a responsibility to protect people from atrocity crimes, widely hailed as a landmark agreement, became possible through a discursive shift in the negotiations leading up to the summit, where a normative approach of international solidarity started to replace bitter debates about the legitimacy of military intervention. This approach identified the lack of sufficient state capacities to adequately deal with a…
Protection in Peril
There is often tension between counterterrorism and human rights compliance. This particularly applies to international engagement aimed at the protection of fundamental human rights in armed conflicts. This article traces international diplomacy and disputed issues regarding norms of protection in Sri Lanka in 2009. It shows how the Sri Lankan government's three-pronged discourse of counterterrorism, humanitarian protection and non-alignment und…
Emerging norm and rhetorical tool
European governments, parliaments and civil societies belong to the most important supporters of a ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P). However, despite a shared positive attitude towards R2P and co-ordinated diplomatic efforts, major European governments and therefore the European Union (EU) have never reached a consensual position on R2P. Based on 47 expert interviews and a review of official government documents, the article analyses the positio…
Major powers and the contested evolution of a responsibility to protect
The debate about a responsibility to protect (R2P) people from mass atrocities goes to the heart of current changes in the world. Coinciding with the shift of power and influence away from the West, its nascent and contested evolution as a norm has become a crucial arena in which fundamental conflicts about the future global order play out—far beyond simplistic dichotomies between ‘North’ and ‘South’ or ‘West’ and ‘Rest’. This special issue analy…
Singing the tune of sovereignty? India and the responsibility to protect
With an ostensible commitment to sovereignty and non-intervention and a long standing involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations, India's position on R2P seems puzzling. Still, despite the rhetoric about India being an ‘emerging power’, it often abstains from diplomatic engagement beyond its region, including in R2P situations. What explains its sceptical interpretation, cautious attitude and limited practice? The paper shows that Indi…
The Evolution of Norms of Protection
Global expectations for protecting populations from mass atrocities have significantly expanded. This special issue analyses the debates about a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) that resulted from this normative change. At specific events throughout the past decade (the 2005 World Summit and the 2011 proposal for “responsibility while protecting” as well as crises in Darfur, Kenya, Myanmar, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Libya), the norms of protection …
International Responsibility as Solidarity
The 2005 World Summit's endorsement of a responsibility to protect people from atrocity crimes, widely hailed as a landmark agreement, became possible through a discursive shift in the negotiations leading up to the summit, where a normative approach of international solidarity started to replace bitter debates about the legitimacy of military intervention. This approach identified the lack of sufficient state capacities to adequately deal with a…
Protection in Peril
There is often tension between counterterrorism and human rights compliance. This particularly applies to international engagement aimed at the protection of fundamental human rights in armed conflicts. This article traces international diplomacy and disputed issues regarding norms of protection in Sri Lanka in 2009. It shows how the Sri Lankan government's three-pronged discourse of counterterrorism, humanitarian protection and non-alignment und…
Emerging norm and rhetorical tool
European governments, parliaments and civil societies belong to the most important supporters of a ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P). However, despite a shared positive attitude towards R2P and co-ordinated diplomatic efforts, major European governments and therefore the European Union (EU) have never reached a consensual position on R2P. Based on 47 expert interviews and a review of official government documents, the article analyses the positio…
Major powers and the contested evolution of a responsibility to protect
The debate about a responsibility to protect (R2P) people from mass atrocities goes to the heart of current changes in the world. Coinciding with the shift of power and influence away from the West, its nascent and contested evolution as a norm has become a crucial arena in which fundamental conflicts about the future global order play out—far beyond simplistic dichotomies between ‘North’ and ‘South’ or ‘West’ and ‘Rest’. This special issue analy…
Is conflict prevention a science, craft, or art? Moving beyond technocracy and wishful thinking
In the current wave of renewed interest in conflict prevention, we argue that key lessons from 20 years of practice and research have not been learned yet. Official documents and parts of the literature are too often confined to a technocratic understanding of conflict prevention drawing on positivist conflict forecasting (science) and toolbox approaches to “what works” (craft). Moreover, wishful thinking affects the expected influence of externa…
Singing the tune of sovereignty? India and the responsibility to protect
With an ostensible commitment to sovereignty and non-intervention and a long standing involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations, India's position on R2P seems puzzling. Still, despite the rhetoric about India being an ‘emerging power’, it often abstains from diplomatic engagement beyond its region, including in R2P situations. What explains its sceptical interpretation, cautious attitude and limited practice? The paper shows that Indi…
Emerging norm and rhetorical tool
European governments, parliaments and civil societies belong to the most important supporters of a ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P). However, despite a shared positive attitude towards R2P and co-ordinated diplomatic efforts, major European governments and therefore the European Union (EU) have never reached a consensual position on R2P. Based on 47 expert interviews and a review of official government documents, the article analyses the positio…
Major powers and the contested evolution of a responsibility to protect
The debate about a responsibility to protect (R2P) people from mass atrocities goes to the heart of current changes in the world. Coinciding with the shift of power and influence away from the West, its nascent and contested evolution as a norm has become a crucial arena in which fundamental conflicts about the future global order play out—far beyond simplistic dichotomies between ‘North’ and ‘South’ or ‘West’ and ‘Rest’. This special issue analy…
Singing the tune of sovereignty? India and the responsibility to protect
With an ostensible commitment to sovereignty and non-intervention and a long standing involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations, India's position on R2P seems puzzling. Still, despite the rhetoric about India being an ‘emerging power’, it often abstains from diplomatic engagement beyond its region, including in R2P situations. What explains its sceptical interpretation, cautious attitude and limited practice? The paper shows that Indi…
The Evolution of Norms of Protection
Global expectations for protecting populations from mass atrocities have significantly expanded. This special issue analyses the debates about a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) that resulted from this normative change. At specific events throughout the past decade (the 2005 World Summit and the 2011 proposal for “responsibility while protecting” as well as crises in Darfur, Kenya, Myanmar, Georgia, Sri Lanka and Libya), the norms of protection …
International Responsibility as Solidarity
The 2005 World Summit's endorsement of a responsibility to protect people from atrocity crimes, widely hailed as a landmark agreement, became possible through a discursive shift in the negotiations leading up to the summit, where a normative approach of international solidarity started to replace bitter debates about the legitimacy of military intervention. This approach identified the lack of sufficient state capacities to adequately deal with a…
Protection in Peril
There is often tension between counterterrorism and human rights compliance. This particularly applies to international engagement aimed at the protection of fundamental human rights in armed conflicts. This article traces international diplomacy and disputed issues regarding norms of protection in Sri Lanka in 2009. It shows how the Sri Lankan government's three-pronged discourse of counterterrorism, humanitarian protection and non-alignment und…
Is conflict prevention a science, craft, or art? Moving beyond technocracy and wishful thinking
In the current wave of renewed interest in conflict prevention, we argue that key lessons from 20 years of practice and research have not been learned yet. Official documents and parts of the literature are too often confined to a technocratic understanding of conflict prevention drawing on positivist conflict forecasting (science) and toolbox approaches to “what works” (craft). Moreover, wishful thinking affects the expected influence of externa…
Politics matters! Political will as a critical condition for implementing the sustainable development goals
While commentaries often bemoan the lack of political will to “transform our world”, there is little analysis of country-level politics around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article aims to fill that gap through assessing the preferences and priorities of governments and local elites, as well as related conflicts around the SDGs. We want to investigate what political elites want to achieve through the SDGs. For this, we build on e…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Responsibility to Protect (5 works) · International law (4 works) · Law (4 works)