Publikation

Report on International Workshop “Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives of the South and the North” on 17 October 2006, jointly organised by the Working Group for Development and Peace (FriEnt) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

The intentions of the workshop were to promote the comprehensive idea of R2P from a peacebuilding perspective and to focus on the often neglected aspect of prevention. Furthermore, the aim was to foster a dialogue among the different actors from the north and south due to legitimate questions and concerns expressed by actors from southern regions about possible political abuse of R2P.  Finally, options and challenges regarding the implementation of R2P were to be discussed. Because of its multidimensional nature, R2P seems to be difficult to operationalise and address in all its aspects. Therefore, clarifying the roles and rights, as well as the responsibilities, of different actors is important. Therefore, the approach of the workshop was to look at the roles of different actors; it did so in separate panels.