NATO’s deployment of air power against Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces in Libya has been called - by some with hope, by others with alarm - the first exercise of the “Responsibility to Protect.” This new principle, which calls for international military action against “genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,” was endorsed at the 2005 “high- level plenary meeting” of the UN General Assembly. It is so contemporary that it has been given a textable, Tweetable acronym - R2P.
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