The Report of the Commission could not have been produced in an intellectual vacuum. There is an enormous literature on the subject, in many languages and going back many years, which the Commission had a responsibility to take into account - and every reason to want to. Notwithstanding this wealth of existing literature, the Commission felt the need to generate a good deal of additional research of its own, to fill gaps in that literature, to bring it up to date and to draw together in a more manageable way information and ideas scattered through many primary and secondary sources in many languages.
The nine research essays cover, in depth, the full range of legal, ethical, political and operational issues with which the Commission had to grapple. We were particularly concerned to ensure that we had before us, as an input into our deliberations, a thoroughly balanced analysis of all those issues, with all the major arguments and counter-arguments fully laid out.
The primary authors of these essays in their final published form were Thomas G. Weiss and Don Hubert, whose writing was based, in turn, on substantial contributions from over fifty other scholars and specialists who submitted either specially commissioned research papers, or who made specifically requested contributions to the regional and national roundtables.
The Responsibility to Protect: Research, Bibliography, Background
Supplementary Volume to the Report of the International Commission on
Intervention and State Sovereignty
Introduction
Co-Chairs' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Researchers' Preface
Section B: Past Humanitarian Interventions
Section C: Morality, Law, Operations and Politics
Part II Bibliography
Part III Background
Index
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