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Libya, the “Responsibility to Protect,” and the New Moral Minimum

Michael William Doyle

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The chapter examines the legal and doctrinal sources of the responsibility to protect people from war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. It explores its practice, most importantly in Libya 2011, and identifies the challenges to its continued efficacy that that intervention caused.

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The chapter examines the legal and doctrinal sources of the responsibility to protect people from war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. It explores its practice, most importantly in Libya 2011, and identifies the challenges to its continued efficacy that that intervention caused.

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The chapter examines the legal and doctrinal sources of the responsibility to protect people from war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. It explores its practice, most importantly in Libya 2011, and identifies the challenges to its continued efficacy that that intervention caused.

Key concepts: Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Responsibility to protect, Ethnic Cleansing, Humanity, War crime, Political science, Intervention (counseling)

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