Responsibility to protect - Principens innebörd och potential att skydda
Som en reaktion på de inomstatliga konflikter som utspelade sig under 1990-talet lanserade en internationell kommission kallad International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) rapporten The Responsibility to protect(R2P) år 2001. 1990-talets såväl som hela 1900-talets konflikter hade präglats av omfattande brott mot mänskligheten i stil med folkmord och etnisk rensning. För aIn 2001, as a reaction to the intra-state conflicts occurring in the 1990s, a commission called the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) published the Responsibility to protect report (R2P). The purpose of the report was to offer a method to prevent the reoccurring crimes against humanity that defined so many conflicts in the 20th century. In order to prevent the
