Daniel Silander Boeken

The book delves into the evolution and implementation of the responsibility to protect (R2P) principle, highlighting its emergence as a crucial norm guiding the international community's response to severe human rights abuses. It examines the theoretical underpinnings of R2P and its practical applications, addressing the challenges and debates surrounding its effectiveness in preventing atrocities and protecting vulnerable populations.

This volume explores the development and application of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which - according to its supporters - has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.

Humanitarian intervention is a many layered and complex concept. This study analyzes the various ethical positions, particularly consequentialism, welfare-utilitarianism and just war theory to unravel this intricate topic.