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The Responsibility to Protect - R2P - is the global moral compact that will end atrocity crimes. |
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| The Responsibility to Protect doctrine, initially given a voice by leaders in the human rights community in 2001, is the enabling principle that first obligates individual states and then the international community to prevent and end unconscionable acts of violence irrespective of where those acts occur. R2P was universally endorsed at the 2005 World Summit and then re-affirmed in 2006 by the U.N. Security Council. |
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Responsibility To Protect: The Global Moral Compact for the 21st Century
Edited by Richard H. Cooper and Juliette Voinov Kohler
In 2005, the international community unanimously endorsed a revolutionary norm that has the potential to end genocide and other atrocity crimes in our time. Despite its endorsement at the highest political level and the general feeling of the American public that “something needs to be done” to prevent and stop atrocity crimes, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is very much absent from public thinking and the political agenda in the United States. Written by a stellar cast of authors, this book informs the public and leadership about R2P and its potential. It will also influence the academic, community and political debates by providing crucial insights on how to move R2P from rhetoric to action. |
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Conference on R2P and the ICC |
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Chicago, IL (March 15, 2008) The R2P Coalition is pleased to announce the publication of the "Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court: America’s New Priorities" conference report. The conference, held on 5-7 December 2007, was hosted by the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. The three-day event focused on how R2P can be advanced with US engagement with and participation in the ICC, as well as how to begin laying the foundations for the development of an International Marshall Service. Click here to view the report.
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