The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine was unanimously adopted at the World Summit in 2005 as a result of the various atrocities that were committed in the 1990s; it sovereign countries have the responsibility to protect their citizens from various mass atrocities (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc.), and that the international community has the “residual responsibility” to “use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian, and other peaceful means” to protect populations from...
