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  • 1 - The Origin of the Responsibility to Protect

  • Karin Wester
  • Book:
    Intervention in Libya
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    19 March 2020, pp 11-23

  • Summary

    This chapter contains an examination of the origin of the responsibility to protect and the process leading to its adoption at the UN World Summit in 2005. Also, the question of to what extent the responsibility to protect is enshrined in existing international law is addressed. It transpires that the responsibility – or rather duty – of states to protect persons within their jurisdiction is already clearly rooted in existing international law. However, the complementary responsibility of the international community has a much weaker legal basis. The adoption of the responsibility to protect can be regarded as an explicit acknowledgement that protection against large-scale human rights violations is in part the responsibility of the international community – and this should be considered the most significant aspect of the principle.