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Is It Possible to Meet ‘The Responsibility to Protect’?
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- December 10, 2014
Published on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog, December 9, 2014 These are difficult days for defenders of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which holds that the international community must be prepared to act when countries “manifestly fail to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.” All member states
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Migration Promises and Challenges in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Analysis
- December 8, 2014
In 2015, the adoption by member states of the United Nations of a new development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will likely include a clear role for international migration. As the special representative of the UN Secretary-General for International Migration and Development, Peter Sutherland, recently indicated, the sheer volume of remittances (estimated
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The UNFCCC and Beyond: Transnational Climate Change Governance
- Analysis
- December 6, 2014
The world’s attention (or at least that bit of it thinking about climate change at all) is focused again on the annual UN negotiations that convene for two weeks every December. This year in Lima, increasing attention is being given to a huge array of initiatives that work outside, or alongside, the UN Framework Convention
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Limiting Foreign Fighting by Canadians: Stop-Gap Legal Measures
- Analysis
- December 6, 2014
Published on the National Security Law blog, December 4, 2014 I have opined here and here about the troubles associated with foreign fighting. I do not limit my concerns about these troubles to fighting with a listed terrorist group. I find persuasive the Australian view, at least as recorded by that country’s independent reviewer of
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