Responsibility to protect

• Details
• Tagged entities

Properties

SES ID

• 12484

Notation

• 12484

In scheme

• Subject

Broader

• International law

Related

• Ethnic cleansing

Definition

• A developing international political and legal norm which commits the international community to take action to protect civilians in the fact of war crimes, genocide or ethnic cleansing where the local government is unable or unwilling to stop it. The duty is three-fold: to prevent, to react (militarily if necessary) and to rebuild.