TY - BOOK ID - 86328223 TI - The conflict in Syria and the failure of international law to protect people globally : mass atrocities, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions PY - 2022 SN - 9781032056630 1032056630 9781032056647 1032056649 PB - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Humanitarian law KW - Responsibility to protect (International law) KW - Political persecution KW - Disappeared persons KW - Detention of persons KW - War victims KW - Criminal procedure KW - Desaparecidos KW - Missing persons KW - Victims of state-sponsored terrorism KW - Political repression KW - Repression, Political KW - Persecution KW - Civil rights KW - International law KW - Humanitarian conventions KW - International humanitarian law KW - War (International law) KW - Law and legislation KW - Syria KW - Sirii︠a︡ KW - Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) KW - Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) KW - Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) KW - سوريا KW - Sūriyā KW - Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah KW - Syrian Arab Republic KW - République arabe syrienne KW - Sowria KW - Syrie KW - R.A.S. KW - RAS KW - Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah KW - Fédération des États de Syrie KW - Syrische Arabische Republik KW - SAR KW - Suryah KW - Arabska Republika Syryjska KW - Syrien KW - Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya KW - Repubblica Araba Siriana KW - جمهورية العربية السورية KW - Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah KW - Сірыя KW - Siryi︠a︡ KW - Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка KW - Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Сирийската арабска република KW - Siriĭskata arabska republika KW - Συρία KW - Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας KW - Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias KW - 시리아 KW - Siria KW - סוריה KW - רפובליקה הערבית הסורית KW - Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit KW - シリア KW - Shiria KW - Сирия KW - Сирийская Арабская Республика KW - Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Сирія KW - Syrii︠a︡ KW - Сирійська Арабська республіка KW - Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika KW - 敘利亞 KW - Xuliya KW - United Arab Republic KW - History KW - Law and legislation. KW - Atrocities. KW - Politics and government KW - Victims of war KW - Victims KW - Droit humanitaire. KW - Responsabilité de protéger (droit international) KW - Répression politique. KW - Personnes disparues. KW - Victimes de guerre. KW - Syrie. KW - Droit KW - Atrocités KW - Droit humanitaire KW - Répression politique KW - Personnes disparues KW - Victimes de guerre UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86328223 AB - "This book explores, through the lens of the conflict in Syria, why international law and the United Nations have failed to halt conflict and massive human rights violations in many places around the world. The work presents a critical socio-legal analysis of the failures of international law and the United Nations to deal with mass atrocities and conflict. It argues that international law, in the way it is set up and the way it operates, falls short in dealing with these issues in many respects. The argument is that international law is state-centred rather than victim-friendly, is to some extent outdated, is vague and often difficult to understand, and therefore, at times, hard to apply. While various accountability processes have come to the fore recently, processes do not exist to assist individual victims while the conflict occurs, or the abuses are being perpetrated. The book focuses on the problems of international law and the UN, and, in the context of the many enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions in Syria, why nothing has been done to deal with a rogue state that has regularly violated international law. It examines why the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has not been applied, and why it ought to be used, generally and in Syria. It uses the Syrian context to evaluate the weaknesses of the system and why reform is needed. It examines the UN institutional mechanisms, the role they play and why a civilian protection system is needed. It examines what mechanism ought to be set up to deal with the possible one million people that have been disappeared and detained in Syria"-- ER -