The Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Moving the Campaign Forward

Abstract

Written in conjunction with the launching of a new international organization, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, this report addresses some of the most challenging questions concerning how to move the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) from principle to practice. The creation of the Global Centre for R2P marks a historic watershed as, to date, promotion of the norm has fallen on the shoulders of professionals within NGOs, governments, and international institutions who have other primary responsibilities. This report is primarily intended as a resource for the Global Centre, as well as for the myriad institutions and individuals with whom the Centre will work as it moves R2P forward.