David Scheffer
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Responsibility to Protect
As at March 28, 2011, David Scheffer served on the Advisory Board for Responsibility to Protect[1] The primary mission of the organization is to convince the American people and its leaders to embrace the norm of the responsibility to protect as a domestic and foreign policy priority. This "responsibility to protect" is defined by the organization as follows,[2]
- "While sovereign Governments have the primary responsibility to protect their own citizens from such catastrophes, when they are unable or unwilling to do so that responsibility should be taken up by the wider international community ” with it spanning a continuum involving prevention, response to violence, if necessary, and rebuilding shattered societies."
References
- ↑ Responsibility to Protect: Structure (accessed on March 28, 2011)
- ↑ R2P website, Mission, accessed March 25, 2011