Description
Emerging scholarship has highlighted the role of Southern agency in the formation and subsequent development of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) (Acharya, 2013, Hindawi,2021), leading to claims that Southern agency is working to decolonise the norm. Whilst this work has played highlighted the key role that Southern agency has played a key role in the formation and development of the R2P, Southern agency does not necessarily work to decolonse the R2P. Drawing on distinctions between decolonisation and dewesternisation, this paper will argue that southern agency has served to dewesternise, but not decolonise, the R2P. In the process, it reflects on questions of what it means to decolonise international norms, and whether decolonial approaches to civilian protection should engage with, or delink from the Responsibility to Protect
