Is the optimism that the world will be able to say ‘never again’ to genocide atrocities just a hopeless dream?
The future is uncertain for the brave new international norm of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), unanimously embraced by the UN in 2005 in the hope of ending once and for all the horrors of the Holocaust and Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s, and Darfur in this century.
Prof Gareth Evans discusses the scope and limits of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, hazards associated with military intervention to protect civilians, and whether international consensus on dealing with crimes against humanity has now disappeared.
‘When is it right to fight’ is jointly presented by the Hawke Centre and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. This session will be chaired by the Hawke Centre’s Director, Elizabeth Ho OAM.
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