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Governments and NGOs: Their Responsibility to Protect

Notes from the meeting on the 15th September with Gareth Evans. Discussing some of the issues related to operationalising the principles of Responsibility to Protect.

Date de la note : 15 septembre 2005

Dossier : Processus collectifs de régulation - Divers

Mot-clés : relations Etat ong ; diplomatie non gouvernementale ;

This paper is presented on the website of the One World Trust (www.oneworldtrust.org)

Chair – Nick Young, British Red Cross

Keynote Speaker :Gareth Evans, International Crisis Group

  • Simon Burall (One World Trust): Welcome everyone. It is time to start turning the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles into practice and the One World Trust hopes that this meeting will one part of this important process. Thank you to everyone for coming and we hope that we can have a lively debate.

  • Nick Young (British Red Cross): It is an appropriate time to be meeting to discuss the topic as the recent breakthroughs for ‘Responsibility to Protect’ have been widely reported. And we are lucky enough to be joined by Gareth Evans; his job is in prevention and resolving deadly conflicts as President of the International Crisis Group.

  • Gareth Evans (International Crisis Group): Although it has been a desolate week, compared with the hopes and expectations that many had, the endorsement of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principle is a ray of sunshine. To understand the importance of this breakthrough and where it is going it is important to understand the background.

 


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