Responsibility to protect (R2P) is a norm that states must protect their populations from mass atrocities and the international community has a responsibility to assist states or intervene through coercive measures if needed. R2P was developed following the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and calls for intervention in cases of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. However, implementing R2P can be problematic, as seen with the vetoes from Russia and China regarding intervention in Syria despite the ongoing civil war and crimes against humanity.

1. Responsibility to protect

2. What is responsibility to protect, and which
problems the implementation of this
responsability may lead to?

3. content
● R2P
● Problems
● Rwandan genocide (1994)
● Libia (2011)

4. R2P
“Norm that sovereignty is not a right, but that states must protect their
populations against mass atrocities. International community has the
responsibility to assist the state to fulfill its primary responsibility.”
The international commission on intervention and state soverignty(ICISS,
2001)
Facing sanctions
Failure to respond to tragedies such as Rwanda (1994)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect 15.05.14 - 14:15)

5. R2P continues...
Is necessary when:
● genocide
● crimes against humanity
● war crimes
● ethnic cleansing
foundation “pillars”
● A state has a responsibility to
defend their population against
these crimes
● The international community
has the responsibility to assist
the state to fulfill its primary
responsibility
● International community has
the responsibility to intervene
through coercive meassures.

6. Problems

7. Rwandan genocide

8. Libia

9. conclusion
R2P is necessary
Used once in Lybia
Due to genocide in Rwanda
Veto from Russia and China- Syria
Tensified realationship between countries
3 pillars- 4 crimes

10. sources
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect
http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/responsibility.shtml
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/
http://snl.no/R2P
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/component/content/article/35
-r2pcs-topics/1760-chatam-house-the-responsibility-to-protect-and-the-
problem-of-military-intervention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War