The Responsibility to Protect

Despite the fact that the development of the R2P principle has occurred in parallel to significant developments in the field of gender on the international scene, gender remains a neglected topic in the central documents and debates related to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). There is therefore a need to consider how gender may be integrated into R2P policies and practices. This article suggests that this discussion may be structured around two gender perspectives, which are guided by the questions of ‘where are the women?’ and ‘how does gender work?’ respectively. The first gender perspective involves identifying women’s experiences in connection with mass atrocities and taking into account their role as agents in the commissioning, as well as the prevention of, and protection against, such atrocities. The second gender perspective involves investigating what work gender is doing in the context of mass atrocities. Here, the focus is specifically on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and how this is based on, and serves to maintain or reinforce, certain notions of femininity and masculinity. Based on these two gender perspectives, the article presents a series of recommendations for the development of R2P policies and practices

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Gender analysis · Human rights · International law · Masculinity · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law

• Opportunity for Gendering the Responsibility to Protect Agenda at the United Nations

  Open Access•Cristina G Stefan•Global Studies Quarterly•2021

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• Sexuality, Gender, and the Colonial Violence of Humanitarian Intervention

  Open Access•Patrick J Vernon•International Studies Review•2022

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• The Responsibility to Protect and the Youth

  Open Access•Patrick Dzimiri•The Anthropologist•2014

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• Is R2P still controversial? Continuity and change in the debate on ‘humanitarian intervention’

  Noele Crossley•Cambridge Review of International…•2018

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• (En)gendered Security? The Complexities of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes

  Kara Ellerby•International Interactions•2013

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• Bridging the gap

  Open Access•Sara E Davies, Sarah Teitt et al.•Cooperation and Conflict•2014

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• Mainstreaming Gender in UN Security Policy

  Open Access•Carol Cohn•Global Governance•2008

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• Wartime sexual violence

  Open Access•Miranda Alison•Review of International Studies•2007

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• Sexual Violence and War

  Open Access•Inger Skjelsbæk•European Journal of International…•2001

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