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

Dr James Souter examines the conditions under which states owe asylum as a form of reparation to refugees.   The causes of contemporary forced migration are seldom purely local, but typically have significant regional, international and global dimensions. Most directly, external military intervention often forces very large numbers from their...

Dr Samuel Jarvis sets up a normative conversation about R2P and the motivational power of ‘humanity’. For scholars and activists supportive of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the moral obligations for responding to “conscious-shocking” crimes generated by the principle are often deemed to be so obvious as to be incontestable...

Kate Ferguson and Fred Carver call for a devolution of the Responsibility to Protect from the UN to national actors and civil society in order to live up the original visions of the principle and to properly confront the specific pathology of mass atrocities.   As the threats of climate...