This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP. Diverging from existing works, it provides a renewed perspective and alternatives for future deployment of the RtoP and critical insights to the readers on how issues such as support, consolidation, and institutionalization within the broader context of regional dynamics of the RtoP can be best achieved in Africa. The book will be of particular interest to diplomats, international relations experts, scholars, RtoP advocates, the United Nations, and the African Union.
Section I: Philosophical, Theoretical & Historical Overview Of The
Responsibility To Protect.
Chapter I: Introduction.
Chapter II:
Responsibility-to-Protect and a Tri-dimensional Methodology: Exploring the
Epistemic-Morality of an Interventionist.
Chapter III: From Peacekeeping to
the Responsibility to Protect: Unpacking the Genealogy and History of the
RtoP Doctrine in the International Humanitarian System.- Section II: Theory &
Practice Of The Responsibility To Protect In Africa.
Chapter IV: A Critical
Reflection of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations Responsibility to
Protect Intervention in Libya.
Chapter V: Horizontal Inequality - Armed
Violence and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa: The Cote dIvoire
Experience.
Chapter VI: Insurgency, Responsibility to Protect at the Expense
of Local Protection in the Civilian Joint Task Force in the North-Eastern
Region of Nigeria.
Chapter VII: The Sahel Region and the Dilemma of Civilian
Protection: A Challenge to the Responsibility to Protect.
Chapter VIII: The
Anglophone Cameroon Conflict and the Responsibility to Protect.
Chapter
IX: The Responsibility to Protect and International Community Response to the
Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria.
Chapter X: From Regionalization of
Peacekeeping to the Responsibility to Protect in Africa: The Gambia
Experience.
Chapter XI: The US Foreign Policy and the Responsibility to
Protect in Africa.- Section III: Emerging & contending issues from the
pratice of the responsibility to protect in africa.
Chapter XII: The African
Union, Responsibility to Protect and the Mantra of African Solutions to
African Problems.
Chapter XIII: Implementing the RtoP: Coordinating
Approaches Between the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
Chapter XIV: Peace Enforcement In The
Face of International Military Intervention.
Chapter XV: The Media, Armed
Conflict, and the Responsibility to Protect.
Chapter XVI: Exploring the
Legal Discourse on the Practice of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa.-
Chapter XVII: Responsibility to Protect and the Avoidance of the
Responsibility: Ending Atrocity Crimes in Northern Nigeria.
Chapter XVIII:
Environmental Challenges, Climate Change and the Responsibility to Protect
(RtoP) In Africa.- Section IV: Institutionalization, consolidation &
prospects of the responsibility to protect in africa.
Chapter XIX: From the
Sustainable Development Goal 16 to the African Union's Silencing the Guns
Agenda: Why is it so Difficult to Achieve Sustainable Peace and Stability in
Africa?.
Chapter XX: Can the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine Act as a
Deterrent against Mass Atrocity and Human Rights Infringement in Africa?.-
Chapter XXI: The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP): Norm Institutionalization,
Issues, and Challenges.
Chapter XXII: Responsibility to Protect: From
Contestation to Internationalization.
Nicholas Idris Erameh has a Bachelor of Science (BSc), a Master of Science (MSc), and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations from the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan. Erameh's research interests cut across the areas of Human Security, Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Ecological Security, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Peacekeeping, Refugee and Migration, Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Erameh is currently a senior research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Political Studies and International Relations, North-West University, South Africa. Before joining NIIA, he taught at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Erameh is a recipient of several grants, awards, and scholarship prizes.
Prof Victor Ojakorotu is the Deputy Director, School of Government Studies, Mafikeng at North West University, Mafikeng, South Africa. His research interests are African Politics, Nigeria, Conflict and Peace, Environmental Politics and Security. He is widely published in internationally accredited academic journals on the vexing subject of the Niger Delta. Some of books he has published on the Niger Delta are Contending Issues in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, Fresh Dimensions on the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria, Checkmating the Resurgence of Oil Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria and Anatomy of the Niger Delta Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Opportunities for Peace.
