The UN Security Council's Responsibility and the 'Responsibility to Protect'
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol 15, 2011, pp. 377-418
Posted: 23 Apr 2013 Last revised: 26 Mar 2014
Date Written: April 23, 2013
Abstract
Despite the centrality of the Security Council’s role in the responsibility to protect debate, little attention has been drawn so far to the relationship between the Security Council’s primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and its role in implementing the responsibility to protect on behalf of the international community. This article critically examines the Security Council’s responsibility, as envisaged in the responsibility to protect concept, and the way this has influenced the conception of the Security Council’s responsibility among Council members.
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