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datestamp: 2020-06-11 16:03:33
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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   
 
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