Powers and Activities of the Secretariat and the un Secretary- General on the Conceptual Implications and Effectiveness of Responsibility to Protect Theory

Abstract

The Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P), implemented in the UN, is a reaction to serious events experienced by international society in which wars are responsible for killing and for forced displacement of thousands of people. This concept, which was made in response to UN Secretary-General appeals and results of the efforts made by the Secretariat is constantly debated by the Member States of the organization, since several attempts, including legal, to contain violence on a large scale, among which stands out for purposes of this article the R2P, present themselves insufficient to prevent or sometimes just to appease the ferocity of the war, which is conditioned in many ways to factors relating to the use of power and influence by the actors in the international arena. Thus, for the general purpose of this brief essay might be achieved, which refers to the understanding of powers and activities of the Secretariat and UN Secretary-General on the conceptual formulations of the Responsibility to Protect and its effectiveness, will be necessary to research more profoundly some questions like the attributes and the powers of the Secretariat and the UN Secretary General, the conceptual development of the R2P and a brief mention of some situations where there has been or could be your application, as in the Kenyan and Syrian cases, order to be better understood its effectiveness. The survey, conducted in an interdisciplinary way between the fields of knowledge of Law and International Relations, connects through its general and specific objectives, issues related to the daily lives of international relations and international law, and peaceful settlement of disputes, organizational theory international, humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty. As the scientific method, the inductive method is used to evidence if the R2P can show how the Secretariat and the Secretary-General exercise their powers and duties, as well as its limitations. It is used also to legal-dogmatic or legal-theory method, which analyzes specific laws in relation to other regulations of the law correlating with external sources, as well as historical-comparative method used to understand the legal institutions and the development of the Secretariat and the Secretary-General's role. It emphasizes, therefore, that the bibliographical and documentary study will focus not only on UN Secretariat documents, but also cover the Security Council resolutions, the General Assembly, as well as doctrinal interpretations.