The Practitioner’s Perspective: R2P at 15

Abstract

In this contribution the authors reflect on the Forum topic ‘R2P 15 Years after the World Summit: Progress, Problems and Prospects’ and provide their perspective as advocates on the normative and practical progress made towards implementation of R2P. They discuss how R2P has created a greater consciousness regarding atrocity crimes within multilateral decision-making, the challenges inherent in cultivating norm champions, and how to transform R2P from a boutique foreign policy initiative into a domestic policy imperative.