RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE CONFERENCE



The third Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference took place on May 11 and 12, 2017. Forty speakers and poster presenters from all over the world presented their opinion, views and research on various aspects of the R2P principle.

​Welcome note by the Rector of the University of Ljubljana
Introductory address by the President of the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia

Opening Panel:
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  • Ivan Šimonović, Special Adviser of the Secretary General for Responsibility to Protect
  • Alain Pellet, Emeritus Professor, University Paris Quest Nanterre La Défense, Former Member and Chairperson of the International Law Commission, President of the French Society of International Law, Member of the Institute de Droit international
  • Simon Adams, Director of the Global Centre for R2P
  • Gyorgy Tatar, Director of the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

​Presentation of the Outcomes of the Third European Responsibility to Protect Focal Points Meeting
Panel 1: Law and Politics of R2P
Panel 2: R2P, Use of Force and Non-State Actors
Panel 3: R2P and the Security Council
Panel 4: R2P and State Cases
Panel 5: R2P and Ukraine – Panel supported by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Panel 6: Libya and Syria
Panel 7: R2P, Human Rights Questions and the Environment

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2017 Conference program:
2017 Conference Photos

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)
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- Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice
​(eds. Dr Vasilka Sancin and Maša Kovič Dine) 
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