Responsibility to Protect (R2P): The ICISS Commission Fifteen Years On
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2016-10
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Evans, Gareth
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School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Canada played a crucial role in the birth of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm,
endorsed by the UN General Assembly in 2005, and can remain proud of its achievement
in generating a new international consensus about how to respond to genocide and other
mass atrocity crimes. Good progress has been made against the four relevant benchmarks
– R2P’s role as a normative force, institutional catalyst, effective preventive framework
and effective reactive framework. Despite the breakdown of Security Council consensus
over Libya in 2011, and the failure since then of R2P to stop mass atrocity crimes in
Syria, there are grounds for optimism about its more effective implementation in the
future.
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Simons Papers in Security and Development
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Open Access