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R2P Bulletin - Second Quarterly Edition

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R2P COALITION BULLETIN

SECOND QUARTER 2007

Dear [FIRSTNAME],

Welcome to the second quarterly edition of the R2P Coalition's Bulletin!

R2P Advocacy

On April 23 2007, R2P Coalition Convenor Richard Cooper had a brief meeting with Barack Obama shortly before the presidential candidate delivered his first major foreign-policy speech in Chicago. Richard Cooper outlined the mission of the R2P Coalition and emphasized how the Responsibility to Protect provides a new direction for America’s foreign policy based on the global rule of law and international justice.

First Local Government on the West Coast to Endorse the Responsibility to Protect
On March 14 2007, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco adopted a resolution endorsing the principle of the Responsibility to Protect and urging the federal government to implement this principle.

According to an April 2007 poll conducted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org, 74% of the public in America is of the view that the Security Council should implement its responsibility to protect, including by authorizing the use of force against the will of the government whose populations are victims of severe human right abuses such as genocide.

Conferences and Speaking Engagements

The white paper The Responsibility to Protect: A Strategy for Engaging America summarizes the discussions of the Chicago 15-17 November 2006 conference “The Responsibility to Protect: Engaging America” and presents recommendations on the way forward.

On 13-15 March 2007, the Human Rights Center of the University of California Berkeley, in partnership with Human Rights Watch, Genocide Intervention Network and Humanity United, held the conference "Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect". In his address, R2P Coalition Convenor Richard Cooper called for the US to join the ICC and take leadership in strengthening this institution.

Illinois Universities R2P Student Essay Contest

The R2P Illinois Universities Student Essay Contest deadline was extended to 30 May 2007.

The R2P Coalition

New mission statement for the R2P Coalition
Following the Chicago November R2P Conference, the R2P Coalition redefined its mission statement:
A new paradigm for ending atrocity crimes through the global rule of law: Moving from ad hoc, unilateral, and politically-driven military interventions to, sustainable and legitimate judicial deterrence and enforcement.
The R2P Coalition is implementing a three-step plan:

To convince the American people and its leaders to embrace the norm of the responsibility to protect as a domestic and foreign policy priority.
To convince our political leadership that the US must join the ICC.
To convince our political leadership to empower the UN and the ICC with a legitimate and effective deterrent and enforcement mechanism - an International Marshals Service - a standing international police force to arrest atrocity crimes indictees.

The R2P Coalition is pleased to welcome two new Advisory Board members. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, brings to the Coalition her considerable expertise and international reputation as a leading authority on US foreign policy and international law. John Washburn, Convenor of the American NGO Coalition for the ICC (AMICC), brings with him many years of US advocacy for the ICC and a passionate engagement for international criminal justice.

Upcoming Events

The R2P Coalition is sponsoring a 14-16 November 2007 conference “Ending Atrocity Crimes: The Joint Venture of R2P and the ICC”, that will be convened by David Scheffer’s Center for International Human Rights of Northwestern University School of Law, in partnership with other organizations.

All the best,

Richard Cooper

Convenor, R2P Coalition

www.R2Pcoalition.org