Women Protection within Responsibility to Protect Doctrine (original) (raw)

Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice (Conference Papers), edited by Vasilka Sancin and Masa Kovic Dine, Ljubljana, 2013, pp. 891-915

Regarded as an inevitable consequence of wartime violence against women has for a long time been considered as a traditional form of masculine dominion. Furthermore, it has been denoted as a determinative method and mean of the conventional warfare. The raise of awareness about the enduring suffering of females shifted the traditional paradigm toward the need of feminine protection and security. One of the methods to eliminate the violence and achieve female protection is to be observed within the concept of the Responsibility to protect adapted to suit the special needs of feminine protection. Namely, as a female logic is allotted in the discourse of care and solidarity, the standard application of R2P envisaged in the use of force as a form of masculine logic, is not to be considered as an adequate method. Its inadequacy is especially alarming, as women rights are additionally endangered during the forcible application of R2P and similar methods. Female issues, therefore, cannot be administered in the masculine way. On the contrary, only with the systematic concern and methodological administration of women protection, due analysis of feminine victimization and intensive responsibility in regard to all aspects of violence against them, the protection of feminine population could be achieved. Referring to R2P doctrine, the first and third pillars of the doctrine, that is responsibility to prevent and responsibility to rebuild, might be professed as a solid theoretical and practical grounds. For those pillars to be functional, few elements have to be satisfied. Sex and gender crimes more visible, principles of communal concern developed and female position in patriarchic society re-questioned. In this article, the author discusses about those elements, and questions the possibility of renewing the concept of R2P doctrine in regards to feminine protection.