R2P

American  

[ahr-tuh-pee] / ˈɑr təˈpi /

Or Rto P

abbreviation

1. responsibility to protect: the global principle that nations have an obligation to protect their populations against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, and that the international community must assist if necessary.

   The United Nations invoked R2P to authorize delivery of humanitarian aid.

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Etymology

Origin of R2P

First recorded in 2005, following the United Nations' World Summit

Example Sentences

Four years later, at the U.N.’s 2005 World Summit, R2P was unanimously adopted.

From Slate • May 24, 2021

“They think that R2P means military coming in and supporting. But R2P is a broad range.”

From Slate • May 24, 2021

The so-called R2P framework was adopted at the 2005 U.N.

From Reuters • Jun. 2, 2018

R2P governed the guiding rationale of the two recent Security Council resolutions that sanctioned action against both the Gaddafi and Gbagbo regimes.

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011

But R2P advocates are at pains to emphasize that these scenarios are not the major testing grounds of the doctrine.

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011