RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND HUMAN SECURITY IN UN’S INVOLVEMENT IN LIBYA
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2019.2.10Keywords:
United Nations, responsibility to protect, Libya, human security, humanitarian interventionAbstract
The article discusses the responsibility to protect (RtoP) and the shift from a right for humanitarian intervention towards a global responsibility to protect civilians, as exemplified by the wording of Resolutions 1970 and 1973. The main goal of the article is to analyse the response of the United Nations to the crisis in Libya and discuss the ways in which responsibility to protect and human security were incorporated throughout the involvement in Libya. The article is structured in three main parts. The first one provides a brief overview of the essentials of the responsibility to protect while the second one focuses on the UN’s incorporation of RtoP. Finally, the last part tackles the degree to which the intervention in Libya reflected an adequate and consistent RtoP framework.References
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