Description
After Covid-19, international relations have changed. The members of the international community have experienced a challenge that reminded them we all are fragile as human beings. However, every country had different experiences facing the virus and the challenges that it brought, this is to say, security, financial and social matters. Notwithstanding, states had to act together for the creation and distribution of the different vaccines to recover a minimum part of the World we used to live in. Would the international community have the same will to stop mass atrocities around the world? This paper argues that international relations are stepping on a new era: the era of cosmopolitism and digitalisation. Thus, to create an effective vaccine against mass atrocities, states must bring to the table the new subjects of international law such as international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and people. To be able to achieve this objective, the United Nations, particularly, the Security Council (as the one whose responsibility is to keep international peace and security) must apply transparency, citizen participation, and collaboration as guiding principles taking advantage of the new technologies to develop an Open Security Council. All in all, this paper argues that to have an effective application of the R2P, as the mass atrocities vaccine, the Security Council must become an Open organ with a cosmopolitan perspective.
Keywords: Responsibility to protect, open government, security council, cosmopolitanism,
