Experts from the ECR2P give their take on contemporary issues of human protection

Professor Jason Ralph discusses the United Kingdom’s strategy for atrocity prevention. In April 2014, I published with UNA-UK the report Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in UK Strategy.  Despite the UK’s commitment to R2P it was difficult to identify the use of a distinct ‘atrocity prevention lens’ in the early...

University of Leeds PhD candidate, Richard Illingworth, discusses the topic of United Nations Security Council veto reform.   The Veto Problem The veto power held by the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s five permanent (P5 – Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and China) members presents one of the greatest...

In this ECR2P Fresh Perspectives piece, Professor Jason Ralph writes on the European Union’s strategy of atrocity prevention in Myanmar. In a paper to be published by the European Journal of International Relations, Eglantine Staunton and I draw on recent developments in norm research to analyse the European Union’s (EU)...