r2p

legislation

World Summit Outcome Document (2005) defines R2P as ‘collective action’ involving ‘cooperation on a case-by-case basis’ to protect people against ‘genocide, war-crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity’.

Aim

Aims to protect human rights that would otherwise be violated as the world ‘stood paralysed between the competing imperatives of intervention’ and ‘non-intervention’.

examples

Violence following the 2007 Kenyan election resulted in 1133 deaths. R2P was invoked, wherein media training of the President and opposition leader was used to calm racial/political tensions (first pillar).

nato description

Harvard’s Belfer Centre described NATO’s abandonment of Libya as ➢ ‘Exacerbating human rights abuses, humanitarian suffering and radicalism’, ➢ Representing a ‘model of failure’.

NYT

The New York Times article R2P RIP (2011) described the Libya intervention as: ➢ being R2P’s ‘High water mark’ ➢ speculation about NATO’s ‘ulterior motives’ is likely to ‘do irreparable damage to R2P’s prospects of becoming a global norm’