The Responsibility to Protect at 10: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia Pacific

The Stanley Center aims to emphasize the institutionalization and implementation of upstream measures to prevent mass atrocity crimes.  In collaboration with the Asia Pacific Center for the Responsibility to Protect, the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, and the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect, the Stanley Center will co-host the “R2P at 10” conference to take stock of the last ten years of R2P and look toward strengthening state responsibility to protect and international assistance for states in crisis in the next decade.

As a co-host, the center will lead  two conference sessions designed to share lessons learned and best practices in prevention of atrocity crimes and building domestic and institutional capacity to prevent atrocity crimes. The center will support a working lunch session led by Frank Okyere of the Kofi Anan International Peace Keeping Center and moderated by Angela Bruce-Raeburn of the Stanley Center. This session will consider the role of training institutions and improving education about atrocity crimes to build state resilience.

The center will also support Dr. Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Anan International Peace Keeping Center, who will lead a panel on building domestic capacity to prevent atrocity crimes. Dr. Aning will share lessons learned and best practices from Africa in an effort to include voices from the global South in the discourse on prevention of mass atrocity crimes.