Resurrecting Responsibility: A Humanitarian Imperative in Crisis The United Nations' annual gatherings on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine have become a hollow ritual, a sad reminder of the global community's failure to uphold its most basic humanitarian obligations.
The doctrine, first introduced in 2001 as an effort to prevent crimes against humanity and genocide, has been manipulated and forgotten, only invoked when convenient for Western powers.
The origins of R2P lie in the aftermath of Rwanda and Bosnia, where international inaction allowed unspeakable horrors to unfold.