In 2011 Brazil published a concept note called “responsibility while protecting” which suggested these tools must themselves meet nine tests for avoiding harm, including reiterating that R2P maintains that any military action would require a Security Council mandate.īut consideration of military action should rarely be part of the discussion. They are collectively known as the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” – a principle endorsed by all UN member states at the World Summit in 2005. These tools allow for the graded application of pressure and actions to prevent and discourage atrocity crimes before they occur, measures to mitigate harm as it is occurring and subsequent accountability processes to prevent recurrence and provide justice to survivors. The international community’s record on preventing atrocities is poor, but past failures have produced a set of tools to guide our response.
Atrocities – genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing – represent humanity at its worst: horrific crimes affect communities for decades. There is no greater test of our international system than its record when it comes to preventing atrocities. This is what we have to say about: Preventing atrocities Recommendationsĭevelop a strategy for preventing atrocities which would detail precisely what measures and indicators would lead the R2P Focal Point to declare that there is an imminent risk of atrocity crimes occurring in any given country and what mechanisms and actions this would trigger.Įlevate the role of R2P Focal Point to ministerial levelĬhampion the doctrine of R2P across Government, using atrocity prevention as a ‘lens’ to analyse policy in all areas including within peacekeeping, arms export policy and immigration and asylum policy UNA-UK's report, " Keeping Britain Global" makes the case that Britain needs to champion global values, and invest in the health of our international system and makes recommendations across five key areas where we believe the UK can make a useful contribution at a global level, and where we feel Britain’s willingness to take action will provide a fair and appropriate test of Britain’s support for the rules-based international order.
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