Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the tra

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle is the international community's major response to the problem of genocide and mass atrocities - a problem seen in

The responsibility to protect ('R2P') principle articulates the obligations of the international community to prevent conflict occurring, to intervene in confli

This book relates the Responsibility to Protect to existing bodies of theory on the nature and foundations of political and international order.

The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the