Libya and the Responsibility to Protect - Dr Luke Glanville

Hosted by: AIIA Qld

The event will start on: Tuesday, 06 December 2011 6:00 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 06 December 2011 7:30 PM

At Harris Terrace, Brisbane

46 George Street , Brisbane Queensland

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The adoption of Resolution 1973 in March this year, authorizing intervention in Libya, represented the first time that the UN Security Council had authorized military intervention in a functioning and non-consenting sovereign state for the purpose of protecting civilians. A crucial factor prompting sceptical states to allow the passage of the resolution without the consent of Gaddafi's regime was the fact that relevant regional organizations such as the League of Arab States had consented to, indeed appealed for, such action. This talk examines the emergence of the 'responsibility to protect' concept and the possible shift away from reliance on sovereign consent and towards reliance on the consent of regional organizations in Security Council deliberations about the authorization of military force to protect civilians.

Luke Glanville is a research fellow in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. He is also a fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, housed at University of Queensland. Luke has published numerous articles on the responsibility to protect and has a forthcoming book, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect. He is co-Editor of Global  Responsibility to Protect journal with Alex Bellamy and Sara Davies.

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