Stopping Mass Atrocities: Keynote Address - Gareth Evans

[charbonelle]

Responding to critics of R2P in his book, "The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All", Gareth Evans, the person who is perhaps R2P's, attempts to dismiss "those who retain a strong aversion to imperialism, or perceived neo-imperialism" as erecting "straw men" by insisting on "hammer[ing] away at humanitarian intervention as the target, and only incidentally mention R2P...without acknowledging that the debate has moved on..."

-He forgot Haiti already interesting

[charbonelle]

Evans is the prez and CEO of the International Crisis Group, cites ICG documents throughout his book. But, there is reference to the situation in Haiti (despite the fact the ICG issued six Haiti-specific reports during the period). Writing about the topic of economic sanctions in a section titled 'Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect," Evans warns, , that "the capacity of financial sanctions to do real DAMAGE...should never be underestimated."

[charbonelle]

In his memoir, Paul Martin describes how the Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson, "saw the responsibility to protect in the context of the recent ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti." Ever the expert at "personal diplomacy," Martin was able to "persuade him to change his view, partly because of Canada's bona fides in the region and in particular with respect to Haiti, as well as by arguing that no intervention would occur without regional approval."

[charbonelle]

the example of Haiti alone, combined with the R2P Lobby's silence on the Haiti case and its close proximity to other interventionist projects, should compel those who are concerned with the erosion of state sovereignty, the [re-]emergence of a paradigm of "humanitarian imperialism," and a continuation of the global counterinsurgency campaign (aka 'war on terror'), to think twice about supporting R2P's entrenchment as a global norm.

[johnnyboypdq]

What a bunch of BOOBS! intellecutal RETARDS!

[tom500k]

Right, let's unleash the US government, today's #1 perpetrator of genocide, to stop genocide. What a bloody farce! Shame on UC Berkeley for giving a fig leaf for this cruel b.s.

[AzMoo]

What? Did you watch the video? He explicitly stated that R2P should be undertaken by the international community to put pressure on rogue states to stop abuses and genocide, and that they should be emphasising preventative programs and properly thought out post-conflict rebuilding over reactive military intervention. He was quite clear that this should be a collective effort by the international and especially regional communities.

[Antarblue]

Yeah, and the para-fascist UC Regents really care about genocide! LOL!

[8data]

and I hope that the number one Chicago Boy of my age, Obama wins so that 2008-Greenovation

1960s-Neoconservative won

2010s-Greenovation and Human Rights

[8data]

Garreth Evans Australias

Foreign Policy and Human Rights Aspirations greater than US, now

Ideas, mainly the idea of Weapons of Mass Destruction, in Iraq, was the most powerful one of Western Worlds Political Philosophy, the idea of taxing over another country because of an Idea, that in itself is a great demonstration of the power of language to shape Political Will as the Chicago Boys did in the 1960s- the triumph of Leo Strauss Neoconservativism which gave opaque aims to foreign policy