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    De l’effectivité de la responsabilité de protéger les populations : une norme controversée diversement appliquée en Afrique des grands lacs
    (UB, Ecole doctorale, 2024-10) Mbirigi, Ferdinand; Sous la direction de : Prof. Rafâa Ben Achour; Prof. Pascal Niyonizigiye
    Despite the United Nations consecration of the “responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”, hereafter designed R2P, followed by the setting up of relevant instruments and mechanisms for eradicating these crimes in the member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, some of the said states have been and remain the scene of mass atrocities. Meanwhile, discussions on the R2P legal scope have fueled controversies among diplomats and scholars. After analyzing several documentary resources including legal instruments, judicial decisions, official documents, and scholarly works, we hold that R2P is in fine a kind of container gathering several well-established conventional and customary norms. We also hold that implementing this relatively autonomous norm in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, like in other parts of the world, depends on its debtors' political will, interests and power balance.