Has Canada's R2P About-Face Come Too Late?

Documents show the government, with an eye on the Obama administration, has embraced the concept. But is it too late?

By Michelle Collins

Published April 22, 2009

Standing before a packed room at the University of Ottawa in early March, former Canadian ambassador to the UN Allan Rock declared that the Responsibility to Protect was "at great risk" from both its opponents, and some friends.

The human-security doctrine, adopted at the 2005 UN Reform World Summit and intended to respond to mass atrocity, has yet to be legitimately invoked, Mr. Rock explained, and the nations opposed want to make...

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