In this article from First Things, the emerging international concept, which Pope Benedict ties to Catholic natural law theory -- and which in many ways grounds the recent intervention in Iraq -- and with recent natural disasters overwhelming local governments, or those not being responded to by recalcitrant local governments, the need for the international community to respond is examined.
The author defines the responsibility to protect (R2P) from the several different perspectives in this excerpt:
“So, what is R2P? Proponents such as the U.N. secretary-general’s new special assistant for R2P, Edward Luck, take a political constructivist view and call it an emerging international norm ripe for codification. Pope Benedict recently called it a fundamental principle of the international order based on the natural law. Critics have called it everything from a license for Western imperial aggression to a ruse for curtailing American power.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
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- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.