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R2P: The Next Decade is a daylong conference scheduled for January 18, 2012.

It will bring together government officials, UN representatives, policy experts, academics, and journalists for a discussion marking the 10-year anniversary of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and for a serious assessment of the state and future of R2P at a pivotal moment in its development and application.

Members of the press are welcome to cover all or part of the conference.

If interested, please contact Stanley Foundation program officer Sean Harder at sharder@stanleyfoundation.org

Press Releases

January 12, 2012
PRESS INVITED: R2P Conference to Examine Future of Atrocity Prevention
‘R2P: The Next Decade’ to gather Senior Officials, Experts, Civil Society

The Stanley Foundation, in partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur Foundation, will mark the 10th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) with a full-day conference examining R2P through past experience and contemporary realities, and considering the prospects and challenges steering its evolution from political principle to policy doctrine into the next decade.