REVUE : "R2P and Atrocity Prevention at the United Nations: The Role of Small States", Nordic Journal of Human Rights (vol. 42, n°4, 2024)

Martin MENNECKE, Ellen Emilie STENSRUD

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (vol. 42, n°4, 2024) has been published. This special issue is devoted to "R2P and Atrocity Prevention at the United Nations: The Role of Small States."

Editorial

Ellen Emilie Stensrud, Martin Mennecke, On the 20th anniversary of the responsibility to protect: Can small states save R2P from failure and oblivion?

Research Articles

Ellen E. Stensrud, Bringing Realism to the Idealism of Small States: Norway and Atrocity Prevention at the UN Security Council
Martin Mennecke, The UN Human Rights Council, Denmark, and R2P—the Perfect Match?
Hanna Tuominen, Finland’s role in the promotion of Responsibility to Protect at the United Nations
Jonas Fritzler, R2P Niche Diplomacy and Norm Development in Times of Politicization: A Look at Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Sarka Kolmasova , Ph.D, The Czech Republic: Human Rights Defender, Yet No R2P Champion
Vasilka Sancin, UN Security Council Membership as a Litmus Test for Slovenia’s Commitment to R2P
Frank Okyere Osei, Small States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Unveiling Ghana's Agency in Atrocity Prevention

Practitioner’s note

George Okoth-Obbo, The role of Small States in advancing the Responsibility to Protect: personal reflections of a former United Nations mandate holder

Book Review

Nils Alexander Alwon M. Phil, Atrocity crimes and international law: responsibility to protect, intercession, and non-forceful responses by Stacey Henderson, Routledge, 2023, 182 pp, £120.00 (Hardback), ISBN: 1-003-22089-4
Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally: Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions by Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Routledge, 2022, 306 pp, £35.09 (paperback), ISBN 9781032056647