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The US-Israeli war on Iran has fueled allegations that the Responsibility to Protect doctrine created a permissive environment for military intervention. But R2P was designed to address only mass-atrocity crimes – and to ensure restraint, legitimacy, and accountability when the international community confronts their perpetrators.
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MELBOURNE – In 2005, the United Nations World Summit, attended by more than 170 heads of state and government, made a political commitment to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. But in endorsing the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, did they also clear a legal path to the US-Israeli war against Iran?