%0 Journal Article %T Replacing The Responsibility to Protect: The Equitable Theory of Humanitarian Intervention %A Ciar£¿£¿n Burke %J Amsterdam Law Forum %D 2012 %I VU University Library %X In this article, Ciar n J. Burke argues that the a? Responsibility to Protecta? initiative has failed. Burke presents a series of fundamental flaws, both with the doctrine advanced by the ICISS, and with the subsequent attempts to incorporate it into the international legal framework. Burke opines that equity, as a source of international law, should instead be used to shed fresh light on the debate, keeping the discourse within the law and away from subjective ethics, and drafting a novel framework which he dubs a? equitable humanitarian interventiona? . %K international law %K humanitarian intervention %K responsibility to protect %K independence %K human rights law %K Kosovo %K Russia %K Georgia %K Putin %K R2P %K Equity %K Equitable theory of humanitarian intervention %U http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/64