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The 36 pages that link to Responsibility to protect, each with the reason it gives.

• SovereigntyRelated: It tests whether sovereignty shields governments from outside action during atrocities.

• United Nations Security CouncilRelated: Its application often depends on whether the Council can agree to act in crises.

• Collective securityRelated: It reframes protection from aggression as a responsibility extending to populations facing atrocities.

• GenocideRelated: It frames international action when a state fails to protect its population.

• Just war theoryRelated: Its framework raises questions about when collective action may justify force.

• Charter of the United NationsRelated: Its advocates invoke Charter-based collective action when states fail to protect populations.

• Humanitarian interventionRelated: It recasts protection from a claimed right to intervene as a responsibility, with military action subject to collective authorization.

• Internally displaced personRelated: Mass internal displacement can signal failures to protect people from atrocity crimes.

• International human rights lawRelated: It connects atrocity prevention with international action while remaining distinct from treaty-based rights claims.

• Regime changeRelated: Its principles can justify pressure or intervention that may contribute to a government's removal.

• Kofi AnnanRelated: Annan championed its adoption as a response to failures to prevent mass atrocities.

• International politicsRelated: It reframes sovereignty as carrying duties toward populations, not only rights against intervention.

• Siege of SarajevoRelated: The limited early response to civilian attacks in Sarajevo informs debates about intervention and protection.

• Military interventionRelated: It reframed debates over when sovereignty can entail outside action to protect civilians.

• Human securityRelated: It turns protection of people into a principle for national and international action.

• North Korean human rightsRelated: The commission of inquiry invoked this framework in discussing international responses.

• United Nations Protection ForceRelated: Srebrenica became a lasting reference point in debates about international responsibility for civilian protection.

• Ban Ki-moonRelated: Controversy over its use in Libya tested Ban’s support for intervention and the principle’s limits.

• Jus ad bellumRelated: Its endorsement of collective action does not itself settle when unilateral force is lawful.

• Bernard-Henri LévyRelated: His interventionist arguments overlap with debates about international duties to protect civilians.

• International orderRelated: Its contested application tests how collective duties fit with sovereignty.

• Post–Cold War eraRelated: It formalized arguments about sovereignty and intervention raised by 1990s crises.

• History of the United NationsRelated: Its adoption reflected efforts to address the civilian-protection failures exposed by 1990s crises.