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Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century

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Editors:
  1. Nicholas Idris Erameh

    1. Department of Research & Studies, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Nigeria

  2. Victor Ojakorotu

    1. Department of Political Studies & International Relations, Northwest University, Mafikeng, South Africa

  • Covers the dynamics and complexities of Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) politics
  • Provides fresh perspectives on the mobilization of the RtoP in Africa and across globe
  • Offers suggestions for improvement of RtoP operations to enhance prospects of norm institutionalization

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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.

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Philosophical, Theoretical and Historical Overview of The Responsibility to Protect

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Africa’s Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the Twenty-First Century

      • Nicholas Idris Erameh, Victor Ojakorotu
      Pages 3-15

    3. Responsibility-to-Protect and a Tri-dimensional Methodology: Exploring the Epistemic-Morality of an Interventionist Principle

      • Ronald Olufemi Badru, Temitope Oluwaseun Oluyemi
      Pages 17-40

    4. From Peacekeeping to Responsibility to Protect: Unpacking the Genealogy and History of the RtoP Doctrine in the International Humanitarian System

      • Peter Inalegwu Awodi, Sharkdam Wapmuk
      Pages 41-59

  3. Theory and Pratice of The Responsibility to Protect in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Responsibility to Protect in Libya or Regime Change? What We Have Learned?

      • Emmanuel Chijindu Anabiri, Pfano Mashau
      Pages 63-77

    3. Horizontal Inequality and Violence in Cote d’Ivoire: The Complexity of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) Doctrine

      • Omosefe Oyekanmi
      Pages 79-91

    4. On Responsibility for the Security of Others: An Ethnographic Case Study of Civilian Joint Task Force Insurgent Peace in Borno State, North-Eastern Region of Nigeria

      • Oluwaseun Bamidele
      Pages 93-111

    5. Conflict-Proofing Civilian Protection Rules in the Sahel: The Challenge of the Responsibility to Protect

      • Kalilou Sidibé
      Pages 113-125

    6. The Anglophone Cameroon Conflict and the Responsibility to Protect

      • Richard U. Gbemudia, Derrick Teneng Cho
      Pages 127-145

    7. The Responsibility to Protect and International Community Response to the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria

      • Oladiran Afolabi, Phemelo Olifile Marumo
      Pages 147-162

    8. From Regionalization of Peacekeeping to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) in Africa: The Gambia Experience

      • Ishaya Umaru Tanimu-Saminaka, Fatima Favour-Tamar Tanimu
      Pages 163-172

    9. The Responsibility to Protect in American Foreign Policy Towards Africa

      • Christophe Dongmo
      Pages 173-193

  4. Emerging and Contending Issues from The Pratice of The Responsibility to Protect in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. The African Union, Responsibility to Protect and the Mantra of African Solutions to Africa Problems

      • Samuel Osagie Odobo, Ikenna Mike Alumona, Nicholas Idris Erameh
      Pages 197-218

    3. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP): Coordinating Approaches Between the United Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court

      • Natalie Zähringer
      Pages 219-233

    4. Peace Enforcement in the Face of International Military Intervention

      • Micheal Oluwasegun Aregbesola, Joshua Olusegun Bolarinwa
      Pages 235-250

    5. The Media, Armed Conflict, and the Responsibility to Protect

      • Nureni Aremu Bakenne, Israel Ayinla Fadipe
      Pages 251-268

    6. The Legal Discourse on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Africa

      • Dodeye Uduak Williams
      Pages 269-285
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Research & Studies, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Nigeria

    Nicholas Idris Erameh

  • Department of Political Studies & International Relations, Northwest University, Mafikeng, South Africa

    Victor Ojakorotu

About the editors

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.



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