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A Decade of the War on Terror and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

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In 2001, before 9/11, it seemed as though the world was moving inexorably towards a new humanitarian norm of military intervention in cases of massive human suffering and, in particular, genocide, ethnic cleansing and large-scale human rights violations. Several reports were published in 2000–01 that strengthened the case for humanitarian intervention. The Independent International Commission on Kosovo concluded in 2000 that the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia aimed at preventing the ethnic cleansing of Albanians was ‘illegal but legitimate’ and that there was a need to take measures to close the gap between legality and legitimacy (IICK 2000). The same year the Report of the United Nations Panel on Peace Operations (UNSC 2000), also known as the Brahimi Report, put forward practical proposals to improve the capacity of the UN to respond to crises. And in 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and States Sovereignty (ICISS) came up with the concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) — the idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect civilians where their own states fail to do so (ICISS 2001).

I am very grateful to Tom Kirk for research assistance, and to Alia Brahimi, Marika Theros, Iavor Rangelov, Frederick Abrams and Alvaro de Vasconcelos for helpful discussions.

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Mary Kaldor (Professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    Henrietta L. Moore (William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology) (William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology)

  3. Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE), UK

    Sabine Selchow (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

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    Sabine Selchow (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

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Kaldor, M. (2012). A Decade of the War on Terror and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’. In: Kaldor, M., Moore, H.L., Selchow, S., Murray-Leach, T. (eds) Global Civil Society 2012. Global Civil Society Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369436_6

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