Dear all,
We hope this call for papers for our upcoming workshop on the ‘Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Crisis’ in Leeds will be of interest to members of the list. Please do send queries and paper proposals to me at [log in to unmask]
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James
James Souter
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
School of Politics and International Studies
University of Leeds
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Call for Papers
The Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Crisis: How Should Europe Respond?
What? One-day workshop
When? Monday, 18th January 2016
Where? School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
How? This workshop is part of a project entitled ‘The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of the Continuing “War on Terror”: A Study of Liberal Interventionism and the Syrian Crisis’, funded by Research Councils UK as part of its ‘Rights and Ethics in a Security Context’ call (grant number ES/L013355/1). Funding is available for speakers’ travel, one night’s accommodation (for UK speakers) or two nights’ accommodation (for international speakers), as well as subsistence. Lunch and coffee will be provided for participants (including non-speakers). Dinner will be provided for speakers.
Abstract
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the relevance of the responsibility to protect (R2P) for the current refugee crisis emanating from the Middle East. The ongoing Syrian civil war is largely seen as an arena in which R2P has failed to date, with the international community and individual states having failed to coordinate effective action in response to atrocities committed by its various parties, including Islamic State, which has also seized territory within Iraq. With an end to hostilities appearing remote, the resulting refugee crisis – although borne disproportionately by neighbouring countries – is now also significantly impacting upon European states.
This workshop will ask whether, and in what ways, R2P needs to be creatively and pragmatically reiterated so it can effectively protect those at risk from atrocities in Syria and Iraq. R2P has generally been seen, at least as far as international action under ‘Pillar 3’ is concerned, as a general and diffuse responsibility that is borne by international society as a whole. It has also largely been regarded as a foreign policy issue, in isolation from states’ asylum policies. The problem with this is that often this responsibility is not met, as those capable of fulfilling their R2P do not see it as their particular responsibility, and the absence of intervention is taken as representing a failure of R2P, when in fact states have other means of fulfilling it at their disposal. The workshop will examine how the responsibility to protect may be distributed among states, and what roles asylum, refugee protection and refugee responsibility-sharing may play in meeting the demands of R2P. We invite papers which address these, and other, challenges facing R2P in the context of the current refugee crisis.
To submit a paper proposal, please email James Souter at [log in to unmask] with a title and abstract of no more than 300 words by Friday, 23rd October. Those accepted will be notified shortly afterwards.
Who? To be organised by James Souter (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds), with assistance from R2P Student Coalition interns, Blake Lawrinson and Georgiana Epure
Confirmed speakers include Professor James Pattison (University of Manchester), Professor Richard Beardsworth (University of Aberystwyth), and Chloe Gilgan (University of York).
Suggested Panels:
Allocating Responsibilities
This panel will explore the question of how the responsibility to protect can and should be allocated to ensure its effective implementation. It will explore and perhaps draw lessons from practices of special responsibilities within other issue areas at the international level, such as humanitarian intervention and climate change.
R2P, Asylum and International Responsibility-Sharing
This panel will explore the actual and potential role of special responsibilities in the international allocation of responsibilities for refugees, and linkages that can be made between R2P, asylum and refugee protection.
Reiterating R2P
This panel will explore potential ways in which R2P can, and perhaps should, be reiterated and reframed in order to meet the challenges that currently stymie its effective implementation.
Proposed Output: Special Issue of Ethics and International Affairs
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