Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

A newly-rebooted UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect should work with local communities to de-escalate tensions before atrocities occur.

Member States claim to want peace. Addressing issues in the "Joint Office" would elevate atrocity prevention as a priority.

The international community failed 20 years ago to stop mass atrocities and genocide in Darfur, and is now failing again.

To reinvigorate US leadership, consider why US action on the 2008 Albright-Cohen blueprint has not translated into more success.

States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.

Even at the U.N., no clear direction has emerged. In June, the U.N.’s top official on R2P, George Okoth-Obbo, said he would resign from his role as Special Advisor after just…

Efforts to protect populations from atrocity crimes are unlikely to advance without an empowered senior U.N. official at the helm.

In short: No. Here's how to understand what the R2P commitment does require in Ukraine and beyond.

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