The Responsibility to Protect
Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
The former Australian foreign minister on the doctrine adopted at the 2005 World Summit, and why it has not held.
Gareth Evans co-chaired the commission that produced the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect, adopted unanimously at the 2005 World Summit. Here he sets out what the doctrine asks of states, how it was meant to work, and, writing as a practitioner rather than a theorist, where it has failed to prevent the atrocities it was designed to stop.
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Mia Farrow
Gareth Evans started International Crisis and is a person with a conscience as keen as his mind. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia. The Responsibility to Protect was a resolution unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit but, unfortunately, these words have proved to be as hollow as ‘never again’.
Interview · September 2010
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