New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 18, nos. 1-2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Md Syful Islam, Were Crimes Against Humanity Committed During the July 2024 Crackdown on Student Protests in Bangladesh? A Legal Analysis
• Havva Yeşil, The Compatibility of the EU-Turkey Statement with EU Law and International Human Rights Law
• Jan Hornat, Aporia and Responsibilisation in the Liberal International Order
• Intervention
• Helder Ferreira do Vale, The Venezuelan Crisis: From Multilateral R2P to US Unilateral Control

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 17, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Fatih Cüre, Adapting Responsibility to Protect (R2P) for a Multipolar World: Sovereignty, Intervention, and Veto Power
• Chiara De Franco & Christoph O. Meyer, Media and Mass Atrocity Prevention: Three Pathways of Potential Influence
• Ainoa Cabada, R2P as an Early Warning Doctrine: Building a Case for the Establishment of an R2P Preventative Assessment Tool
• Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Converging Global Norms and Institutional Policies with Bottom-Up Approaches to the Protection of Civilians
• Interventions Forum on Gaza
• Josie Hornung & Elisabeth Haugland Austrheim, Atrocity Prevention and the Applicability of R2P to Occupied Palestine
• Sarah Teitt, Israel, Gaza, and the Unrealised Promise of the Responsibility to Protect
• Jeremy Moses, Gaza and the Perils of Militarised Humanitarianism: Universal Values, Politics, and the Hypocrisy of R2P
• Book Forum: A Discussion of Jess Gifkins’ Inside the UN Security Council: Legitimation Practices and Darfur
• Samuel Jarvis, Informal Practice as a Driver of Change: the UN Security Council and Darfur
• Holger Niemann, The Everyday Life of the UN Security Council and International Practice Theory
• Carmen Robledo, Uses and Practices in the UNSC Decision-Making: the Case of Sudan
• Jess Gifkins, Informal UN Reform: a Response to Reviews of Inside the UN Security Council

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 17, nos. 2-3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Accountability in and after Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from Syria
• Dara Conduit & Yasmine Nahlawi, Legal Accountability in Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from Syria
• Roua Al Taweel, Responsibility to Protect and Syria’s Displacement: Unprotected at Home and Abroad
• Yasmine Nahlawi, Accountability Pursuits in the Syrian Context: an r2p Success?
• Danny Singh & Haian Dukhan, From Libya to Syria: Assessing the Impact of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine on Global Intervention Strategies
• Linda Osman, Reflections on the Dabbagh Case: Challenges and Implications for Justice
• Ruham Hawash, Restoring Faith in Justice – the Imperative of Impartiality in the Pursuit of Justice
• Lubna Alkanawati, A First-Hand Account of Surviving Atrocities in Syria, and Fighting for Justice
• Mohamad Katoub, From Syria to Gaza: the Dangerous Normalisation of Attacks on Healthcare

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Adrian Gallagher, Charles T. Hunt, & Cecilia Jacob, The Responsibility to Protect at an Inflection Point
• Gareth Evans, Atrocity Prevention and Response: Challenges for R2P
• Special Section: Cyberspace and the Responsibility to Protect
• Rhiannon Neilsen, Cyberspace and the Responsibility to Protect Populations from Atrocity Crimes
• Federica D’Alessandra & Ross James Gildea, Technology, R2P, and the UN Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes
• Talita Dias, Finding Common Ground: the Right to Be Free from Incitement to Discrimination, Hostility, and Violence in the Digital Age
• Savita Pawnday, Digital Technologies and Atrocity Risks

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel R. Brunstetter & Francisco Lobo, R2P, the Imperial Critique, and Self-Determination: Recovering the Narrative of the Tlaxcaltecas
• Lucas de Belmont, Mass Atrocities against Indigenous Peoples: Atrocity Structure and the Brazilian Amazon under Bolsonaro
• Michael J. Butler, Beyond ‘Saving Strangers’: Revisiting R2P as an Accountability Mechanism

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Rahel Kessete Afewerky, Residual Responsibility to Implement: the AU, the Constitutive Act, and the Responsibility to Protect
• Ferdinand Mbirigi & Pascal Niyonizigiye, The Prosecution of Atrocity Crimes in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, between Accountability Logic and Political Strategies
• Mari Huttunen, A Rifle and a Bag of Rice: Excluding Climate Disasters from the Scope of the Responsibility to Protect

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Adrian Gallagher, Blake Lawrinson, Gillian McKay, & Richard Illingworth, The Responsibility to Protect: a Bibliography

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 15, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Mark J. Wood, Applying Pillar Three of the Responsibility to Protect in Sudan
• Luciano Pezzano, Towards a Judicial R2P: The International Court of Justice and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide in The Gambia v. Myanmar Case
• Wisdom Oghosa Iyekekpolo, Bridging the Norms of Counter-Terrorism and Responsibility to Protect: Countering the Proliferation and Activities of Armed Groups in Nigeria
• Rebecca Barber, A Proposal for Advancing Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 15, nos. 2-3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia
• Cecilia Jacob & Noel M. Morada, Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention in Asia: Patterns, Trends and Strategies
• Noel M. Morada, Hate Speech and Incitement in Myanmar before and after the February 2021 Coup
• Lina A. Alexandra & Alif Satria, Identifying Hate Speech Trends and Prevention in Indonesia: a Cross-Case Comparison
• Ruji Auethavornpipat, Hate Speech and Discrimination as Mundane Violence against Rohingya Refugees during COVID-19
• Cecilia Jacob & Mujeeb Kanth, ‘Kill Two Million of Them’: Institutionalised Hate Speech, Impunity and 21st Century Atrocities in India
• Khadija Rashid, Politicisation of Islam and a Culture of Atrocities against Religious Minorities in Modern-Day Pakistan

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 15, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Nilay Tüzgen & Gonca Oğuz Gök, Understanding the Policies of the BRICS Countries in R2P Cases: An English School Perspective
• Ferdinand Mbirigi, Assurance for Implementing the State’s Responsibility to Protect: Lessons from Burundian Practice
• Brendan Howe, Whose Responsibility? The Protection of Refugees in East Asia

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 14, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Nicholas Idris Erameh & Victor Ojakorotu, Consequentialism – Deontology Theorising, Armed Humanitarian Intervention, and the 2012-2013 Central African Republic Crisis
• Stacey Henderson & Leonie Muller, Afghanistan’s Forgotten Boys: Legal Pluralism and Impunity
• Maria Tanyag, A Murderous Plague: State Hypermasculinity, covid-19, and Atrocity Prevention in the Philippines

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 14, no. 3, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
• Thomas Peak, Charlie Laderman, & Cecilia Jacob, Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Past, Present, and Futures
• Luke Glanville, Wrestling with R2P’s Colonial Parallels
• Karen Smith, R2P at the UN: The Problem of Selective History and Incomplete Narratives
• Alex J. Bellamy, R2P and the Use of Force
• Anastasia Prokhorova, The Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect: Performing Norm Leadership
• Felicity Gray, Relational R2P? Civilian-Led Prevention and Protection against Atrocity Crimes
• Patrick Wight & Yuriko Cowper-Smith, Mass Atrocities in Ethiopia and Myanmar: The Case for ‘Harm Mitigation’ in R2P Implementation

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 14, no. 2, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Counter-terrorism and R2P
• Shannon Zimmerman, The Responsibility to Protect and Counter-terrorism
• Shannon Zimmerman, R2P and Counter-terrorism: Where Sovereignties Collide
• Isaac Taylor, The Responsibility to Protect from Terror: The Ethics of Foreign Counter-terrorist Interventions
• Sascha Nanlohy, R2P, Terrorism, and the Protection of Civilians – ‘Are All Humans Human? Or Are Some More Human than Others?’
• Adrian Gallagher, Blake Lawrinson, & Charles T. Hunt, Colliding Norm Clusters: Protection of Civilians, Responsibility to Protect, and Counter-terrorism in Mali
• Josie Hornung, Terrorism and Pillar Two Protection Assistance: The Yazidis on Mount Sinjar

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 14, no. 1, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Bina D’Costa, Tigray’s Complex Emergency, Expulsions and the Aspirations of the Responsibility to Protect
• Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, The International Response to the Situation in Tigray: A Concerted Effort by Both the Humanitarian and Human Rights Communities
• Fisseha Fantahun Tefera, The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2417 on Starvation and Armed Conflicts and Its Limits: Tigray/Ethiopia as an Example
• Jonathan Fisher, #HandsoffEthiopia: ‘Partiality’, Polarization and Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict
• Samuel Ayele Bekalo, The Potential Impacts of the Stability/Instability of the Tigray Region and the Whole of Ethiopia on the Wider East and Horn of Africa
• Zain Maulana & Edward Newman, Contesting the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Southeast Asia: Rejection or Normative Resistance?
• Felicity Mulford, Circumventing the Responsibility to Protect in Yemen: Rhetorical Adaptation and the United Nations Security Council
• James Pattison, Beyond Imperfection: The Demands of the International Responsibility to Protect
• Uğur Ümit Üngör, ‘Grim Optimism’: Protecting Civilians from Atrocities
• Susanne Karstedt, The Usage and Usefulness of History
• Luke Glanville, An Imperfect Response to My Critics

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 13, no. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Juliette Paauwe & Jahaan Pittalwala, Cultural Destruction and Mass Atrocity Crimes: Strengthening Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Robin Hering, What Is a Safe Area? Definition, Typology and Empirical Cases
• Jack Adam MacLennan, ‘No Ideas but in Things’: The Responsibility to Protect as Assemblage
• Outi Donovan, Trading Freedoms for Protection: Gender and Localised Protection in Libya

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 13, nos. 2-3, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Myanmar and (the Failure of) Atrocity Prevention
• Martin Mennecke & Ellen E. Stensrud, The Failure of the International Community to Apply R2P and Atrocity Prevention in Myanmar
• Noel M. Morada, ASEAN and the Rakhine Crisis: Balancing Non-interference, Accountability, and Strategic Interests in Responding to Atrocities in Myanmar
• Claire Q. Smith & Susannah G. Williams, Why Indonesia Adopted ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ over R2P in the Rohingya Crisis: The Roles of Islamic Humanitarianism, Civil–Military Relations, and asean
• Cecilia Jacob, Navigating between Pragmatism and Principle: Australia’s Foreign Policy Response to the 2017 Rohingya Crisis
• Ellen E. Stensrud, The Rohingya Crisis, the Democratisation Discourse, and the Absence of an Atrocity Prevention Lens
• Kate Ferguson, For the Wind Is in the Palm-Trees: The 2017 Rohingya Crisis and an Emergent UK Approach to Atrocity Prevention
• Camilla Buzzi, Mass Atrocities in Myanmar and the Responsibility to Protect in a Digital Age
• Sebastiaan Verelst, Accountability in Myanmar: A Transformative Stepping-Stone?
• Martin Mennecke, The International Court of Justice and the Responsibility to Protect: Learning from the Case of The Gambia v. Myanmar
• Morten B. Pedersen, The Rohingya Crisis, Myanmar, and R2P ‘Black Holes’
• Nickey Diamond, The Failure to Protect in Myanmar: A Reflection on National Protection of Rohingya against Mass Atrocity Crimes and Prospects for the Responsibility to Protect
• Ivan Šimonović, Why ‘Never Again’ and R2P Did Not Work in Myanmar

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 13, no. 1, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Forum: The Uighur Population in China and R2P
• Cecilia Jacob, Adrian Gallagher, & Charles T. Hunt, Pursuing Accountability and Protection for the Uighur and Muslim Minorities in China
• Michael Clarke, Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang
• Sophie Ryan, Atrocity Crimes in Xinjiang: Moving beyond Legal Labels
• Andrew Garwood-Gowers, China and the Uighurs: Options for Legal Accountability
• Rosemary Foot, R2P Sidelined: The International Response to China’s Repression of Muslim Minorities in Xinjiang
• Nadira Kourt, United Nations’ Response to Mass Atrocities in China
• Thomas Peak, Rescuing Humanitarian Intervention from Liberal Hegemony
• Alexandra Bohm & Garrett Wallace Brown, R2P and Prevention: The International Community and Its Role in the Determinants of Mass Atrocity

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 12, no. 4, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Forum: R2P at 15
• Charles T. Hunt, Cecilia Jacob, & Adrian Gallagher, Progress, Problems, and Prospects: R2P 15 Years after the World Summit
• Gareth Evans, The Dream and the Reality
• Savita Pawnday & Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall, The Practitioner’s Perspective: R2P at 15
• Cristina G. Stefan & Edward Newman, Europe’s Progress and the Road Ahead at R2P’s 15th Anniversary
• Fatou Bensouda, The Progress and Convergence of the icc and R2P Norms in a Rules-Based Global Order
• Victoria K. Holt, R2P at 15: Reflections of a Policymaker
• Edward C. Luck, The Adolescent: R2P at Fifteen
• Richard Illingworth, Responsible Veto Restraint: a Transitional Cosmopolitan Reform Measure for the Responsibility to Protect
• Ririn Tri Nurhayati, Assessing Indonesia’s Capacity for Preventing Mass Atrocities
• Noele Crossley, Conceptualising Consistency: Coherence, Principles, and the Practice of Human Protection

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 12, no. 3, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Elisabeth Pramendorfer, The Role of the Human Rights Council in Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
• Benedict Docherty, Xavier Mathieu, & Jason Ralph, R2P and the Arab Spring: Norm Localisation and the US Response to the Early Syria Crisis
• Mikelli Marzzini L. A. Ribeiro, Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros, & Alexandre Cesar Cunha Leite, China’s Engagement with R2P: Pluralist Shaper?
• Rana M. Essawy, The Responsibility Not to Veto Revisited under the Theory of ‘Consequential Jus Cogens’
• Svetlana Bokeriya, Key Aspects of Combined Thinking of the brics Countries on the Responsibility to Protect

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 12, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Ray Acheson, Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade
• Allison Pytlak, Are Arms Trade Treaty Meetings Being Used to Their Full Potential?
• Sam Perlo-Freeman, The ATT and War Profiteering: the Case of the UK
• Deepayan Basu Ray, Commentary: Making Sense of the World that the ATT and the SDGS Are Designed to ‘Fix’
• Jenna B. Russo, R2P in Syria and Myanmar: Norm Violation and Advancement