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News, Events, Publications about Responsibility to Protect

  • Policy Papers 06-28-2021by Damian Lilly

    The UN’s Response to the Human Rights Crisis After the Coup in Myanmar: Destined to Fail?

    Since seizing power in a coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military has launched a violent crackdown against anti-coup protesters—a campaign of terror that may amount to crimes against humanity. With violence spreading, there are fears that the country is slipping toward full-scale civil war and state collapse. The international community has appeared almost powerless […]

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    Protection of Civilians, Responsibility to Protect
  • Meeting Notes 03-15-2016by Maximilian Meduna, rapporteur

    IPI Salzburg Forum 2015: The Rule of Law and the Laws of War

    One of the main threats to the current world order is the erosion of the rule-of-law based international system. Due to the advent of new technologies and hybrid warfare, the laws of war have also become blurred. A major cause of both of these trends is the emergence of armed non-state actors. This meeting note […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Responsibility to Protect, Rule of Law
  • Panel Discussions 09-26-2015

    Elders Propose Veto Reform in Cases of Atrocities

    A high-level panel took up the subject of preventing mass atrocities and how the United Nations Security Council can do better at the International Peace Institute on September 26th 2015, during the week marking the opening of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly.The expert panel focused in on assessment of proposals to prevent […]

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    Atrocity Prevention, Responsibility to Protect
  • Comment & Analysis 08-22-2011by Adam Lupel

    Book Review: Why Should We Help People in Need Beyond Our Borders?

    In the late 1990s and early 2000s the rise of globalization and an evolving human rights regime inspired a proliferation of work dedicated to cosmopolitan theory. Attention to the concept of cosmopolitanism never completely waned, but the muscular foreign policy of the Bush years and the re-emergence of assertive nation states such as China led […]

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    Responsibility to Protect
  • Speaker Events 07-15-2011

    Blood and Borders: RtoP and Kin-States

    Nations and states seldom overlap. As a result, map lines delineating statehood can become blurred by bloodlines of nationhood. People sharing the same ethnicity may live on different sides of the border: some in the “motherland,” where they are a majority, and others in a neighboring state where they are a minority. What happens when […]

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    Responsibility to Protect
  • Speaker Events 06-28-2011

    Envoys Agree on RtoP Principle, Question Implementation

    Two UN ambassadors and one former Security Council president held a vigorous debate at IPI on the subject “Responsibility to Protect: An Emerging Principle”, and, while they agreed on RtoP’s value as a principle, they differed markedly over how it is being applied in current crises, particularly in the ongoing conflict in Libya.The June 28th […]

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    Responsibility to Protect
  • General Announcements 03-28-2011

    Luck: Council Action on Libya ”Historic” Implementation of RtoP

    Edward C. Luck, IPI’s Vice President for Research and Programs and a Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, discussed the military intervention in Libya and how it represented an invocation of the Responsibility to Protect principle in an interview with Andreas Ross, the Political Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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    Responsibility to Protect
  • Policy Papers 03-01-2011by Christoph Mikulaschek and Hans Winkler

    The UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Policy, Process, and Practice

    The International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna have put together the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the UN Security Council in the ongoing process of implementing the responsibility to protect (RtoP).

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    Responsibility to Protect, UN Security Council
  • General Announcements 02-23-2011

    IPI’s Edward C. Luck Tells Al Jazeera: ”Good Reason to Believe” Crimes Against Humanity Have Occurred in Libya

    Asked on Al Jazeera on February 23rd if crimes against humanity were being committed in Libya, Dr. Edward C. Luck, IPI Senior Vice President for Research and Programs, said that though “we don’t have direct access, there is certainly good reason to believe” they were.

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Responsibility to Protect
  • IPI in the News 01-06-2011

    Dr. Edward C. Luck on The Responsibility to Protect: Growing Pains or Early Promise? [Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 24.4 (Winter 2010)]

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    Responsibility to Protect
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Recent articles from
the Global Observatory

  • A New Agenda for Peace and the Climate Emergency

    September 25, 2023 by Cedric de Coning, Gracsious Maviza, Kheira Tarif
    The New Agenda for Peace serves as a stark warning that the damage being done now will have significant implications for humanity’s future wellbeing, safety, and stability.
    Analysis, climate change, New Agenda for Peace
  • “A New Agenda for Peace” Interview with UN Director Asif R. Khan

    September 15, 2023 by Jenna Russo

    Asif R. Khan, Director of UNDPPA's Policy and Mediation Division and a lead penholder of the New Agenda for Peace, reflects on the policy brief and next steps ahead of the Summit of the Future.

    Interviews, New Agenda for Peace
  • The Role of African Multilateralism in the New Agenda for Peace

    September 13, 2023 by Bitania Tadesse

    The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on…

    Analysis, africa, multilateralism, New Agenda for Peace
  • WPS in the New Agenda for Peace: Seeing Patriarchy but Missing Innovation

    September 11, 2023 by Phoebe Donnelly
    Bold language on transforming patriarchy is not matched with concrete proposals to advance the WPS agenda and gender equality more broadly.
    Analysis, New Agenda for Peace, women peace and security
  • The New Agenda and Peace Operations: Don’t Bet Against the Future

    September 7, 2023 by Arthur Boutellis
    There seems to be a disconnect between the overall diagnosis of the New Agenda for Peace and its prescriptions for peace operations.
    Analysis, New Agenda for Peace, peacekeeping, united nations
  • “New Agenda for Peace” Outlines Reform for UN’s Fracturing Multilateral Governance

    September 6, 2023 by Maya Ungar

    The New Agenda for Peace sets a clear vision for…

    Analysis, multilateralism, New Agenda for Peace, UN reform
  • What Can We Say about the Emerging Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America?

    September 5, 2023 by Daniela Sepúlveda Soto, Evyn Papworth

    The adoption of FFPs in Latin America is an opportunity to see how the region reimagines international feminist agendas and…

    Analysis, americas, women peace and security
  • BRICS and the West: Don’t Believe the Cold War Hype

    August 30, 2023 by Cedric de Coning
    Many Western countries and BRICS members may have more shared interests than the doomsday headlines suggest.
    Analysis, BRICS, multilateralism
  • What Could a Successful Summit of the Future Look Like in 2024?

    August 24, 2023 by Adam Day
    The next generation deserves a renewed effort to make the Summit of the Future a success.
    Analysis, multilateralism, united nations
  • Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations on Counterterrorism–A Perilous, Uphill Challenge

    August 3, 2023 by Annabelle Bonnefont, Franziska Praxl-Tabuchi

    Even though…

    Analysis, civil society, terrorism, united nations

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