An R2P Commission
A Proposal for Holding States Accountable to Their Responsibility to Protect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6146952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R S Illingworth (0000-0003-2162-0455, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isagsq/ksac012 |
| OpenAlex | W4210392345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 51 |
In 2005, the United Nations (UN) committed to a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) against four mass-atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. This was a clear commitment acknowledging that states hold responsibilities to consider the protection needs of domestic, and outside, populations. However, holding actors accountable to their R2P commitments is difficult due to the politicization of the norm and the international institutions for implementing it. The result is that the UN lacks the mechanisms for promoting R2P's successful implementation, meaning R2P breaches are all too common and that there is an urgent need to find ways to hold states accountable to their pledges. Applying transitional cosmopolitanism, which calls for an incremental approach in the pursuit of cosmopolitan solutions to contemporary global challenges, this article examines an entirely new and supplementary mechanism to assist in R2P's implementation. The article calls for the creation of an “R2P Commission.” This is a suggestion for a body composed of independent elected experts to scrutinize state practice across R2P's “three pillars.” It argues that an R2P Commission would provide an effective and feasible supplementary body to enhance R2P's implementation via determinations of where manifest R2P failures have occurred, review of international practice vis-à-vis atrocity prevention and response, and recommendations for altering practice and potential response action
Commission · Crimes against humanity · Genocide · International law · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · War crime · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Peacebuilding and International Security · Law
The Global Commonwealth of Citizens
The relational politics of shame
Picking and Choosing? Country Visits by Thematic Special Procedures
The United Nations Human Rights Council
Justice and Feasibility
Human Rights in Global Health
Norm Robustness and the Responsibility to Protect
Norm Contestation and the Responsibility to Protect
The att and War Profiteering
The Role of the Human Rights Council in Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
The Arms Trade Treaty
R2P in Syria and Myanmar
Responsible Veto Restraint
Are Arms Trade Treaty Meetings Being Used to Their Full Potential
Mapping the Responsibilities to Protect
R2P and Prevention
An Inquiry into the Role of Commissions of Inquiry in International Law
Fact-Finding or Paving the Road to Criminal Justice
Theoretical challenges to understanding the potential impact of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism
The ICC and R2P
Failing to fulfil the responsibility to protect
The responsibility to protect in Southeast Asia
International Organizations and Government Killing
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights
Anti-cosmopolitanism, pluralism and the cosmopolitan harm principle
Safeguarding deliberative global governance
African resistance to the International Criminal Court
Legitimising liberal militarism
Does R2P matter? Interpreting the impact of a norm
The Responsibility to Protect and the use of force
To Name and Shame or Not, and If So, How? A Pragmatic Analysis of Naming and Shaming the Chinese Government over Mass Atrocity Crimes against the Uyghurs and Other Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang
The political functions of expert knowledge
From comparative to international genocide studies
Political Feasibility
Citizenship, Humanity, and Cosmopolitan Harm Conventions
J’accuse! Does Naming and Shaming Perpetrators Reduce the Severity of Genocides or Politicides?1
Opportunity for Gendering the Responsibility to Protect Agenda at the United Nations
The Responsibility to Protect in a world of already existing intervention
Electing the experts
What constitutes a 'Manifest Failing'? Ambiguous and inconsistent terminology and the Responsibility to Protect
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |