RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE CONFERENCE 2015


This conference was the second in the series of biannual international interdisciplinary scientific conferences on R2P devoted exclusively to the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P/RtoP) in this part of the world, 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 concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This series conferences is organized as a forum where international experts and researchers have the opportunity to participate in a discourse on issues related to R2P and the applicability of the concept in practice.

Conference Chair: Dr Vasilka Sancin, Director of the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

Conference Coordinator: Maša Kovič Dine

Introductory address was held by  Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Responsibility to Protect 


Opening session:
  • Chair: William R. Pace, Co-founder and Steering Committee Member of the International Coalition for Responsibility to Protect

  • Ruth Wedgwood, President of the International Law Association
  • Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Former Judge and Vice-President of the ICJ
  • Vladimir Kotlyar, Member of the International Law Council of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Aidan Hehir, Director of the Security and International Relations Programme at the University of Westminster 
  • Enzo M. Le Fevre Cervini, Director for Research and Cooperation at the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities/ Roma Tre University


Gala conference dinner keynote speaker Professor Dr Danilo Türk, former President of the Republic of Slovenia

Supporters of the conference:
Order the book with papers from the 2013 R2P Conference