Regional Perspectives: Africa

Abass, Ademola, "Regional Perspectives: Africa" in The Responsibility to Protect: The promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in our Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 109-135.

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  • Author Abass, Ademola
    Chapter Title Regional Perspectives: Africa
    Book Title The Responsibility to Protect: The promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in our Time
    Publication Date 2012
    Place of Publication Oxford
    Publisher Oxford University Press
    Start page 109
    End page 135
    Language En
    Abstract This chapter offers the African perspective on the Responsibility to Protect. It examines how the African Union (AU) understands its responsibility to protect and considers the various provisions of the Constitutive Act of the AU, related to the principles of non-indifference and non-interference as well as its right to intervene in its Member States, and their impact on RtoP. The chapter also discusses whether, in the contemplation of the AU’s Ezulwini Consensus and several allied instruments, there is room for regional organisations to act in the stead of the Security Council whenever a dire RtoP situation arises.
    Keyword Responsibility to protect
    Copyright Holder Oxford University Press
    Copyright Year 2012
    Copyright type All rights reserved
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