The Viability of the “Responsibility to Prevent”

• Published in: Politics and governance Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 85 - 97
• Main Author: Hehir, Aidan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lisbon Cogitatio Press 01.01.2015; Cogitatio
• Subjects: Atrocities; Conflict; Conflict management; Conflict resolution; Crime prevention; early warning; Effectiveness; Emergency communications systems; International relations; Offenses; political will; Politics; Prevention; responsibility to prevent; Security Council; New York; Indiana; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Rwanda; Sudan; Libya; Darfur Sudan

The efficacy of the Responsibility to Prevent suffers from two key problems; causal indeterminacy, and a dependence on the political will of states, particularly the permanent five members of the Security Council. The vast array of factors which can be cited as potentially contributing to the outbre...