LAWS 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Member States Of The United Nations, Consequentialism
22 Nov 2017
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In a case of aggression, the security council may under this chapter, decide on military enforcement measures. Thakur reading: r2p provides an entry point for the international community to step in and take up the moral and military slack. Pared down to its essence, r2p is the acceptance of a duty of care by all those who live in zones of safety towards those trapped in zones of danger. As norms become widely shared in any given in-group, they become embedded in the social institutions of that group. Collective norms constitute the social identity of actors while simultaneously constituting the rules of the game for regulating their social behaviour. Most of these efforts posit the un as the central reference point, whether to emphasize or deny its indispensability: rwanda 1994. In 1994 the norm, embedded in the 1948 genocide convention, was to prevent or stop genocide.
