eprintid: 10100350 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/10/03/50 datestamp: 2020-06-11 16:03:33 lastmod: 2020-11-02 09:58:07 status_changed: 2020-11-02 09:58:07 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Crossley, N title: Conceptualising Consistency: Coherence, Principles, and the Practice of Human Protection ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 keywords: coherence; consistency; responsibility; norms; human rights; human protection note: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: ‘Consistency’ has a range of meanings in the context of human protection practice. This article conceptualises consistency – a basic premise for the legitimacy of norms, both procedurally as well as substantively. First, ‘consistency’ can refer to the coherence of the human protection framework. Second, consistency can refer to the degree to which protection responses adhere to international law and conform with international norms. Third, ‘consistency’ can mean the absence of variability and unevenness in the application of norms. I argue that consistency understood as coherence facilitates protection responses in line with international law, and, second, that a coherent protection framework encourages the even and invariable application of norms of protection by assigning responsibilities to individual protection agents. However, the international human protection regime remains incoherent: it is ambiguous and it is insufficiently integrated with other regimes and across institutions. date: 2020 date_type: published publisher: Brill official_url: https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-984X-01204010 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1788622 doi: 10.1163/1875-984X-01204010 lyricists_name: Crossley, Noele lyricists_id: NKCRO83 actors_name: Crossley, Noele actors_id: NKCRO83 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Global Responsibility to Protect volume: 12 number: 4 pagerange: 440-463 issn: 1875-9858 citation: Crossley, N; (2020) Conceptualising Consistency: Coherence, Principles, and the Practice of Human Protection. Global Responsibility to Protect , 12 (4) pp. 440-463. 10.1163/1875-984X-01204010 <https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-984X-01204010>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100350/1/Crossley_%5B1875984X%20-%20Global%20Responsibility%20to%20Protect%5D%20Conceptualising%20Consistency_%20Coherence%2C%20Principles%2C%20and%20the%20Practice%20of%20Human%20Protection.pdf