Description
This panel brings together research that examines the preventive dimension of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), highlighting a range of contemporary challenges that are shaping state approaches to mass atrocity prevention both domestically and externally. The papers on this panel therefore highlight issues connected to how states interact through UN institutions when approaching atrocity prevention, the influence of domestic foreign policy dynamics in the contestation of atrocity prevention norms and the importance of a cosmopolitan duty to prevent negative harms. Consequently, each of the papers raise provocative questions about the future effectiveness of atrocity prevention initiatives and shine a light onto the opportunities for further progress.
