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    Responsibility to Protect is not a license to intervene

    • Ben Coleridge
    • 29 March 2011
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    Many regard the 'Responsibility to Protect' as a doctrine which licences military intervention when civilians' lives are threatened by murderous governments. In fact, R2P emphasises the 'responsibility to prevent' as much as it does the responsibility to intervene.

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