Revisiting, and Reviving, the R2P

Published July 22, 2009

This week the UN General Assembly returns to the "responsibility to protect." Since its formal adoption at the 2005 UN Summit meeting, R2P has been a doctrine honoured rather more in principle than in practice, but earlier this year the secretary general produced a major report, "Implementing the responsibility to protect," in an effort to shift it from the abstract to the concrete.

The consequences...

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