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42 N.C. J. Int'l L. 115 (2016-2017)
The Contested Emerging International Norm and Practice of a Responsibility to Protect: Where Are Regional Organizations

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    The  Contested   Emerging International Norm and
    Practice  of a Responsibility to Protect: Where are
                  Regional Organizations?

                Stephen Kingaht  and Eva Seiwerttt


 I.    Introduction     ............................116
 II.   From R2P  to Responsibility While Protecting: Is R2P
       Customary  International Law?        ..........   119
 III.  The United Nations Security Council and
       Implementation of R2P.........         ............. 123
 IV.   Is There a Regional Missing Link in R2P?................ 128
       A. The African Union and R2P  in Libya................... 131
       B. The African Union and R2P  in the Central African
           Republic     ....................   ...........134
       C. The African Union and R2P  in Burundi...............136
       D. The African Union and R2P  in Northeastern
          Nigeria     .................................  138
       E. IGAD  and R2P  in South Sudan .......         ......... 140
       F. League of Arab States and R2P in Syria...............142
       G. League of Arab States and R2P in Libya..............145
       H. League of Arab States and R2P in Iraq ................146
       I. League of Arab States and R2P in Yemen............. 147
       J. SAARC  in Afghanistan..........................148
       K. ASEAN   and R2P  in Myanmar...     ................ 152
       L. OSCE  and R2P  in Ukraine    .....................155
       M. SADC   and R2P in the Democratic Republic of
          Congo    ........................        ..... 156




t Stephen Kingah (PhD Law) is research fellow at the United Nations University Institute
on  Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium
(skingah@cris.unu.edu).
tt Eva Seiwert is research intern at the UNU-CRIS. An initial version of this article was
presented at the Conference: Networked World? Multilateral Institutions in International
Security Governance (6 November 2015, ETH, Zurich). The authors are grateful for the
comments received from participants. They also express gratitude to the editors and
reviewers of the North Carolina Journal ofInternational Law.

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