The International Court of Justice and the Responsibility to Protect: Learning from the Case of The Gambia v. Myanmar

Abstract It is a commonplace in the R2P discourse to describe accountability measures as key means implement responsibility protect. In particular, International Criminal Court regularly highlighted central actor, both literature, annual reports issued by UN Secretary-General, and subsequent debates General Assembly. Conspicuously absent from this conversation principal judicial organ of United Nations, Justice ( icj ). This article examines potential role ‘World Court’, The Gambia November 2019 started new case under Genocide Convention against Myanmar before . Analysing limitations prospects existing case-law, concludes that can make an important unique contribution