International responses to mass atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to protect, prosecute, and palliate
本书提出R2P3框架，整合保护、起诉和抚慰三种责任，通过卢旺达、刚果民主共和国、乌干达和达尔富尔四个案例，分析非洲大规模暴行中国际社会的应对机制。
In the past decade, studies on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP or R2P) have grown exponentially. In 2015 alone, nine academic journals published special issues on the R2P to coincide with the tenth anniversary of its endorsement at the World Summit. At this rate, it will not be long before R2P studies will be regarded as a sub-discipline in its own right – in the same way that Genocide Studies is. Against this backdrop, any new publication faces the difficult task of first evidencing its originality and, second, making its voice heard in a crowded discourse. Mills rises to this challenge. This is a ground-breaking study. It pioneers a new threefold approach to the study of mass violence. The author labels this ‘R2P3’ as he investigates the norms and practices associated with the responsibilities to protect, prosecute, and palliate. The first addresses the R2P agreement set out in 2005, the second looks at the International Criminal Court (ICC), while the third focuses on the measures (such as international aid) taken to provide help to the victims of mass violence. Whereas previous studies have tended to focus on either the R2P or the ICC or humanitarianism (broadly defined), this unique book explores the dynamics between these three responsibilities. Essentially, this tripartite approach acts as the conceptual lens which is then used to analyse four case studies: Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Darfur. The focus is therefore very much on African states but is adjusted to consider the local, national, regional, and international contexts. For example, we often meet sub-sections on the role of the African Union, the United Nations, and even the United States as the author strives to show the global politics at play. Meanwhile, he draws on interviews conducted with diplomats, policy makers, and practitioners at the UN headquarters in New York and Geneva, AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, and the ICC in The Hague.