Date of Award
4-8-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
This is a working paper on early warning system for the responsibility to protect. The paper discusses the evolution of the responsibility to protect (RtoP) norm, its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, and current steps towards implementing the norm through effective early warning and response. The paper seeks to apply principles from complexity science and networks to early warning for the responsibility to protect through an ecosystem model in order to address two key challenges to early warning identified by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in his 2010 report on early warning assessment and the responsibility to protect: information sharing, and viewing early warning through the lens of RtoP. The ecosystem model also seeks to bridge the early warning – response gap. I conclude by discussing the role of the United Nations in the ecosystem model.
Recommended Citation
Dambanemuya, Henry '13, "Early Warning for the Responsibility to Protect" (2013). Honor Scholar Theses. 298, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/studentresearch/298