RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE CONFERENCE


2025 marks 20 years on from 2005 World Summit when the international community adopted the principle of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. The Responsibility to Protect has developed from its initial idea, faced the inaction of states and the United Nations Security Council, but has also seen progress in its implementation through ‘R2P Focal Points’ and in the UN General Assembly, as well as other parts of the UN system, and within regional organisations. 


The Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Series is a series of biennial international interdisciplinary conferences established by the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The series is devoted exclusively to the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P/RtoP), with the objective to create an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to engage in an interdisciplinary academic debate on the theoretical and practical implications of the principle. The conferences are organised as a forum where international experts and researchers have the opportunity to participate in a discourse on issues related to R2P and its applicability in practice. 

This year the conference is organized together with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.


Conference Chair: 
Professor Vasilka Sancin, PhD, 
​Head of the Department of International Law and Director of the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Member and Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee (2019-2022)
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​Conference Series Coordinator: 
Maša Kovič Dine, PhD,
Assistant Professor at the Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

​THE SEVENTH RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE  CONFERENCE

MAY 6 - 7, 2025
​Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Premiere presentation of the documentary "Where have you been?" ("Što te nema?")
Followed by a conversation with artist Aida Šehović, who conceived this project 15 years ago with performances around the world.

May 5, 2025 at 16:30
at Kinodvor (Kolodvorska 11, Ljubljana) 

R2P SONG by murat&jose

R2P BOOKS
Books on topical issues related to R2P by Professor Sancin:
- Are we "manifestly failing" R2P? (ed. Dr. Vasilka Sancin)
- Responsibility to Protect - Where Do We Stand Ten Years After? (ed. Dr Vasilka Sancin)
Click here for the ORDER FORM
- Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice
​(eds. Dr Vasilka Sancin and Maša Kovič Dine) 
Click here for the ORDER FORM
DOWNLOAD THE SONG AND SPREAD THE MESSAGE!
The song was prepared specifically for this conference and performed by a famous Slovenian rap band Murat & Jose. 
​For lyrics click here