Seminar om responsibility to protect (København)

This session will take a different approach and explore what role R2P can and does play in the UN human rights system.

In 2005, all member states agreed at the UN World Summit on their responsibility to protect populations against genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. 

This new norm became quickly known as R2P and was initially hailed as a new international commitment to prevent mass atrocities. Then there was Libya and later Syria. R2P has since been disparaged as useless or a Western license for regime change. 

This session will take a different approach and explore what role R2P can and does play in the UN human rights system. Should the human rights community engage with the atrocity prevention agenda or stay away from it?

These questions are very timely, as the UN Special Adviser on R2P has recently, in May 2017, asked UN member states to discuss the role of R2P in Geneva. Martin Mennecke, associate professor of international law at SDU, will argue that R2P is intrinsically linked to the UN Human Rights Council: R2P is not merely a label or talking point, but can be operationalised as a tool of prevention and response. For example, it can be usefully applied in specific procedures such as the Universal Periodic Review. 

Speaker: Martin Mennecke, Faculty of Law, University of Southern Denmark

Discussant: Louise Riis Andersen, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

About this seminar

This seminar is part of the seminar series ‘Human rights conversations across disciplines’, organised by the Danish Network for Human Rights Researchers.

Consisting in six bi-monthly seminars, this seminar series seeks to encourage greater interaction among human rights researchers across different disciplines. Discussing some of the most pressing contemporary human rights issues, the seminars bringing into play different perspectives on and approaches to the study of human rights, exploring the ways in which they complement – or contradict – each other.

Find the full programme of the seminar series here

The Network of Human Rights Researchers, established in 2016, consists in more than 90 human rights researchers in Denmark. The purpose of the network is to create a better overview of the research capacity on human rights, to facilitate mutual exchange and sparring, and to encourage cooperation among human rights interested researchers in Denmark.

Read more about the network here (in English)

Read more about the network here (in Danish)

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