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The Responsibility to Protect: Moving the Agenda Forward

2007· article· en· W3204690279 on OpenAlex
Maria L. Banda

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Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Peace and Security Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsResponsibility to protectPolitical sciencePeacekeepingHuman rightsInternational communityDoctrineInternational lawLawLegitimacyHuman securityPolitics
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Abstract

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Even as the international community commemorates the 50th anniversary of the deployment of the first UN peacekeeping mission, the world is facing a crisis of protection. Inter-state warfare may be becoming a thing of the past, but massive displacement, human insecurity, and civilian casualties are on the rise. The new normative principle and operative doctrine which is attracting increasing attention, enthusiasm, and, in some quarters, alarm, is the notion of a “responsibility to protect” (R2P)—that the international community has a duty to protect civilians from massive human rights violations where their governments are unable or willing to provide security. R2P is the present-day response to a problem every bit as big, and urgent, as peacekeeping had been 50 years ago. The ongoing violence in Afghanistan, the DRC, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and elsewhere serves as a poignant reminder that our current international protection regime is still too weak and too limited to provide security for all. The UN has often failed to act quickly and effectively, while ad hoc coalition and regional initiatives (which have emerged as a possible alternative to UN-led—and, even, UN-authorized—operations) have caused serious concerns about their capacity, accountability, and legitimacy to intervene. The global war on terrorism has further complicated efforts to protect human security, with many nations less willing to send armed forces into a sovereign country. The question this report addresses is how the international community can now turn this normative principle into an operative doctrine that will bring security to vulnerable civilians around the world. The responsibility to protect, to be sure, is first and foremost a responsibility to prevent conflicts from breaking out. It is also a responsibility to rebuild, reconcile, and reconstruct a post-conflict environment. This triple notion of R2P calls for a comprehensive approach to human security and sustainable development. But the focus of this report is on finding ways to protect civilians from large-scale violence when it is already too late to prevent yet too soon to rebuild. How can we ensure an effective and timely response to a grave crisis? Part I provides a holistic overview of the scope and significance of the developing norm of protection. It surveys the key doctrinal developments, transnational advocacy, codification, and international practice that have together turned “sovereignty on its head” since the early 1990s and contributed to the gradual evolution of R2P and, in particular, those factors that have enabled its re-emergence since 2001. Part II considers the strategies to take the norm of protection forward. It proposes the creation of a national R2P agenda and the construction of an international protection regime through the joint efforts of a transnational R2P coalition. Part III presents a series of pragmatic guidelines on operationalizing the norm of protection in the field, with a specific focus on Darfur.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.024
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.407
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0240.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it