The Responsibility to Protect, often abbreviated R2P, is a principle in Global Politics that asserts states have the primary responsibility to protect their own people from crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, or other major human rights violations. If states fail to uphold this responsibility, it then falls on the international community to protect people of the countries affected.

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Documents sourced and referred to in the video:

Kofi Annan, We The Peoples: The UN in the 21st Century, https://www.un.org/en/events/pastevents/pdfs/We_The_Peoples.pdf

Romeo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Random House of Canada, 2009.

ICISS, The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/responsibility-protect-report-international-commission-intervention-and-state-sovereignty

Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New U.N. For a New Century, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 2961 (2006). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol74/iss6/1

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