<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Like other types of humanitarian intervention before it, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has suffered in practice from a pervasive lack of political will. This represents a failure of moral motivation, but also a failure to accept the often steep political, material and human costs associated with intervening to try and halt mass atrocity crimes. In order to ease this second barrier to intervention, we need a reform agenda that will limit the prevalence, intensity and duration of mass atrocities as well as the crisis situations that make them possible, thereby reducing the various costs associated with any specific intervention. This can be achieved through certain aspects of the work of cosmopolitan philosopher Thomas Pogge.</p></abstract>

Like other types of humanitarian intervention before it, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has suffered in practice from a pervasive lack of political will. This represents a failure of moral motivation, but also a failure to accept the often steep political, material and human costs associated with intervening to try and halt mass atrocity crimes. In order to ease this second barrier to intervention, we need a reform agenda that will limit the prevalence, intensity and duration of mass atrocities as well as the crisis situations that make them possible, thereby reducing the various costs associated with any specific intervention. This can be achieved through certain aspects of the work of cosmopolitan philosopher Thomas Pogge.

A Poggean Reform Agenda for Improving Political Will in Response to Mass Atrocities

Politics in Central Europe

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Like other types of humanitarian intervention before it, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has suffered in practice from a pervasive lack of political will....

A Poggean Reform Agenda for Improving Political Will in Response to Mass Atrocities

Published Online: Jun 07, 2018

Page range: 93 - 116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2018-0005

Keywords
Responsibility to Protect, R2P, Thomas Pogge, mass atrocities, humanitarian intervention

© 2018 Jed Lea-Henry, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Poggean Reform Agenda for Improving Political Will in Response to Mass Atrocities

Published Online: Jun 07, 2018

Page range: 93 - 116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2018-0005

KeywordsResponsibility to Protect, R2P, Thomas Pogge, mass atrocities, humanitarian intervention

© 2018 Jed Lea-Henry, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Responsibility to Protect, R2P, Thomas Pogge, mass atrocities, humanitarian intervention