Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

What is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine? How do you rate its usefulness as a framework to ensure a better international response to mass atrocity?

Reading

Read the following:

C. Joyner, “The Responsibility to Protect: Humanitarian Concern and the Lawfulness of Armed Intervention“, 47:3 Virginia Journal of International Law (2009), pp. 693-723

Video: The New Interventionism – Promise and Reality

Watch Video lecture by Professor “The New Interventionism – Promise and Reality“.

Video transcript (.pdf, 112 kb).

If you are having trouble viewing the video on the page, watch the lecture on YouTube.

Reading: Responses to the lecture

Read these short, published responses to Professor Petrasek’s video lecture.

“Mass atrocity crimes are everybody’s business” by Gareth Evans, former President, International Crisis Group

“Stopping an occasional genocide is better than none“, by Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Module 7

Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Reading

Video: The New Interventionism – Promise and Reality

Reading: Responses to the lecture