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The seminar critically examines the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) in the context of the growing role of the individual in the United Nations. It argues that R2P illustrates a paradigm shift in international relations, from a state centred security concept to a more human security centred one. However, as will likewise be shown in reliance on relevant examples in state practice, the implementation of R2P encounters numerous challenges and remains largely deficient. On this basis, potential and limits of R2P will be discussed and possible ways forward explored.
Christina Binder is Professor for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. Christina was member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2014-2022 and served as ESIL’s Vice-President. She is member of the Council of the Global Campus of Human Rights since 2019 and Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Human Rights in Times of Emergency. Her research focuses on a number of public international law issues, including human rights, the law of treaties, international investment law, democracy and political participation as well as international environmental law. She is general editor for the Inter-American system for the Oxford Reports of International Law (ORIL) series, co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, the European Yearbook of International Economic Law and of the Hungarian Yearbook of International and European Law and has widely published, in edited volumes and in peer-reviewed journals.
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- Profrssor Christina Binder
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- School of Law