Global Affairs & Human Security faculty and student examine the Responsibility to Protect principle

Global Affairs and Human Security graduate student, Katherine Teresa Towey, successfully co-authored and published an article in volume 4, issue 3 of the international relations journal, Politics and Governance, along with Assistant Professor Carla Barqueiro and Adjunct Professor Kate Seaman. The article, “Regional Organizations and the Responsibility Protect: Normative Reframing or Normative Change?” assesses the ability of regional organizations to implement the Responsibility to Protect principle, a global political commitment which was endorsed by all member states of the United Nations at the 2005 World Summit to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The authors argue that politicization and reframing of the norm has hindered progress on protecting civilians from mass atrocities in Libya and in Syria.

Read the article, “Regional Organizations and the Responsibility to Protect Normative Reframing or Normative Change?”