The research proposal for the research project "Protection and Prosecution Norms in Humanitarian Intervention Debates" submitted by Caroline Fehl was successful and will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a duration of three years (2016-2019). The DFG has awarded the project with 301.910 Euro.
The main focus of this project is to analyze the interaction of two norms: The “duty to protect”, which postulates that the international community should intervene with military means, if a state is unwilling or unable to shield its citizens from extreme violence. And the “duty to prosecute” which demands that atrocity crimes that would go unpunished in the respective state be prosecuted by international criminal justice mechanisms. The project develops and applies a general theoretical model of norm interaction, which can also be transferred to other policy areas, thus making a wider theoretical contribution to research about international norms.