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Policy Brief - Policy as Implementation: Reconsidering the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

12 May 2022

The former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a report titled In Larger Freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all (2005, p.33), discussed the principles underlying the prospective use of force, including “how to weigh the seriousness of the threat; the proper purpose of the proposed military action; whether means short of the use of force might plausibly succeed in stopping. [...] However, the UNSC has attempted to partially counter impunity by referring to R2P in “its resolutions and statements on the crisis, has condemned the killing of civilians, supported negotiations, mandated investigations, authorized a monitoring mission (UNSMIS), mandated and supervised the removal of chemical weapons, and (for the first time in its history) authorized the delivery of humanitarian. [...] A report by the People’s Coalition for the Sahel, which includes the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, recommends “a radical reorientation from the current counterterror and militaristic approach to the crisis in the Sahel, to one that prioritizes civilian protection, dialogue between all parties to the conflict, tackling corruption, improved access to aid, and an end to impunity” (. [...] The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) is a Moroccan think tank tasked with the mission of contributing to the improvement of international, economic and social public policies that challenge Morocco and Africa as integral parts of the Global South. [...] The PCNS advocates the concept of an open, responsible and proactive « new South »; a South that defines its own narratives, as well as the mental maps around the Mediterranean and South Atlantic basins, within the framework of an open relationship with the rest of the world.
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16
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Morocco