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Report of the Simons Forum on The Responsibility to Protect

August 23, 2017
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By Marie Lamensch

Source: MIGS

The Simons Foundation recently published the Report of the Simons Forum on The Responsibility to Protect: Re-Energizing the Key Players. The report highlights discussions held during atwo-day high-level invitational forum of 30 experts convened by the Simons Foundation under the auspices of the Simons Visiting Chair in International Law and Human Security, Simon Fraser University (SFU), which took place from March 22 and 24, 2017 at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver.

The report highlights the considerable efforts made in advancing and implementing of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), explains the role of key actors, and provides recommendations on how the principles of R2P can be achieved.

The Simons Foundation has supported the work of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies for the past ten years and this new report underlines the importance of the Foundation’s work in advancing atrocity prevention. ​




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