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The General Assembly and the Responsibility to Protect: “The Devil will be in the Details”

I thought that for my first post it would be apposite to discuss a component of my doctoral research. This post will therefore focus upon the Responsibility to Protect doctrine or, “R2P”, as it has become known (for earlier posts on the R2P see here). This post considers the most recent institutional development which R2P has been subjected to- the General Assembly’s July 2009 Thematic Debate on R2P. Last week the General Assembly formalised the debate through its consensual adoption of a procedural resolution on R2P. The Resolution affirmed that the Assembly will give ‘further consideration’ to R2P.  Through reference…