HUMAN SECURITY: FROM HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION TO RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
HUMAN SECURITY: FROM HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION TO RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT

Summary/Abstract: The topic of interest in the present work is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). I chose this theme by trying to define the concept and to offer a theoretical and comparative approach, making the correlation with the Humanitarian Intervention, in the framework of Human Security. In this respect, R2P becomes an important milestone in understanding sovereignty, intervention, and human rights. The doctrine addresses the responsibilities an individual state has to protect its populations from genocide, war and crimes against humanity, and also concerns the responsibility the international community has to intervene – even militarily – when a state neglects its duty. My goal is to consider the origins and likely trajectory of R2P, within the Human Security framework, from the narrow view, focusing on issues of human rights and the persecution of civilians during armed conflict, and the broad notion, maintaining the individual’s protection during natural disasters.

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