R2P

Providing asylum should be just as valued as a response in R2P cases, including the Syrian crisis.

R2P has travelled a remarkable journey in the realm of international relations since its endorsement in 2005.

Since R2P’s adoption, has the international community been more likely to respond to crises?

If the first decade of R2P was a struggle over ideas, the next is to ensure it saves lives — like those under threat in the CAR.

When states are ineffective, civil society groups become key to bridging the ‘responsibility gap’.

Responsibility to Protect is far from failing, argues Evan Cinq-Mars.

States have never been moral actors and R2P has failed to compel them to act. It is time to rethink how we protect communities at risk.

Kyle Matthews on the lessons in leadership that history can provide us.

The Canadian government should be clear on what it is willing to contribute to the peacekeeping mission, argues Kirsty Duncan.

Technology can be used to gather, analyze, and communicate information for the sake of predicting, preventing, and mitigating atrocities in an unprecedented way, argues Christopher Tuckwood.

The “responsibility to protect” be made real through “the capacity to deploy,” says Hugh Segal. Without that, the doctrine will lose salience.

Two decades ago, the global media virtually ignored the killing in Rwanda. Has it learned from its mistake since, asks Michael Valpy.

In the 20 years since the Rwandan genocide, Canada has gone from being the most vocal supporter of the norm to one of its meekest.

Acting on R2P inappropriately or invoking it as a pretext for other objectives like regime change can be as damaging as inaction to R2P’s long-run effectiveness, argues Maria L. Banda.

If we want to make R2P’s hope of “never again” a reality, we need to turn away from the critique of sovereignty and the example of Libya, argues John Duncan.

There is still much work to be done on how to define and apply R2P, but there is hope for the concept, says Lloyd Axworthy.

Irwin Cotler on what we have learned in the 20 years since the Rwandan genocide.

Many countries, Canada included, abdicated their responsibility to respond to the Rwandan genocide 20 years ago. We must never let that happen again, says Kyle Matthews.

Politics trumps any moral obligation to intervene in a conflict argue Derek Burney and Fen Hampson. Just look at Syria.

But as with any emerging norm there are issues that must be overcome, says Art Eggleton.