Remembering the “Responsibility to Protect” in Twenty-First Century Human Rights Rhetoric

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Notes

[1] The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect (Ottawa: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2001), http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/ICISS%20Report.pdf

[2] The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, 2001, vii.

[3] For more on the constitutive nature of this “international community of states” and the wording of the Charter of the United Nations, see Bardo Fassbender, “The United Nations Charter as Constitution of the International Community,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 36 (1998): 529–619.

[4] Brunella Casalini, “From Human Rights Rhetoric to Human Rights Policy,” Jura Gentium, 2003, http://www.juragentium.org/forum/ignatief/en/casalini.htm

[5] For a brief overview of some of the rhetorical histories associated with the R2P doctrines, see United National Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, “R2P-Short History,” 2014, http://www.unric.org/en/responsibility-to-protect/26981-r2p-a-short-history

[6] Ben Voth, “Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory,” Human Rights Quarterly 34, no. 1 (February, 2012): 311.

[7] Casper Erichsen and David Olusoga, The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial roots of Nazism (London, UK: Faber & Faber, 2010).