“ICSS
SUMMARY OF THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT:
THE REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON
INTERVENTION AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY (ICISS)
The Responsibility to Protect report, commissioned by the Government of Canada and produced in 2001 by the International Commission on Intervention and State sovereignty (ICISS), seeks to lay out alternatives to the deeply criticized “humanitarian interventions” of the 1990s. More specifically, the mandate of the drafters was “to try to develop a global political consensus on
how to move from polemics – and often paralysis – towards action within the international system, particularly through the United Nations.” ICISS Report, para. 1.7 The report is available on line in several languages at www.ciise-iciss.gc.ca/report-en.asp.
The World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM) project Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society seeks to deepen the debate on the ICISS report and other writings that feed into the responsibility to protect framework. The following summary...”
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php?module=uploads&func=download&fileId=203
R2P?
To me? That’s a poor argument, very lame. However, could be very instrumental for other reasons if one wants to work a spin.
There are many more areas far more needy of R2P than Libya.
Heck! They should use it for Israel who has Syria, Lebanon and Iran guaranteeing the demise of Israel, but ~ Oabama and the farcical UN would not see it that way.