Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect in the Context of Civilian Protection by UN Peacekeepers

International Peacekeeping, Vol 18, No 4, 2011, pp. 364-378

ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 14-11

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 Last revised: 26 Mar 2014

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Hitoshi Nasu

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Date Written: April 23, 2013

Abstract

This article examines how operationalizing the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) concept may assist in defining the scope of civilian protection mandates for peacekeepers, which are ambiguously restricted by three caveats – ‘imminent threat of physical violence’, ‘area of deployment’ and ‘capabilities’. It is argued that by restrictively interpreting civilian protection mandates in the light of R2P the limited resources of peacekeeping troops would be more effectively utilized to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes. Greater investment would be required to build capacity among the more creative and specially trained units to protect civilians from physical violence, in addition to greater coordination between the military and those specially trained units.

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Nasu, Hitoshi, Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect in the Context of Civilian Protection by UN Peacekeepers (April 23, 2013). International Peacekeeping, Vol 18, No 4, 2011, pp. 364-378, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 14-11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2255294

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