The Responsibility to Protect

The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time provides a comprehensive view on how this contemporary principle has developed and analyzes how to best apply it to current humanitarian crises. The "RtoP" principle, whereby the international community intervenes with force when a given nation fails to protect its own citizens, has generated a passionate debate in law schools, professional organizations, and the U.N. To present a full picture of where the principle now stands and where it could go in the future, editors Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler have assembled a global team of authors with diverse backgrounds and differing viewpoints.