Realizing the Responsibility to Protect in Emerging and Acute Crises

I n 2005, 192 heads of state and governments, through the United Nations (UN), endorsed the responsibility to protect (R2P). In defining this principle, members of the UN not only accepted their individual responsibility to prevent and react to atrocity crimes, they also gave the international community, through the UN, the responsibility to help protect populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing (also referred to as atrocity crimes). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.