Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

Atrocities in Nigeria's Plateau State and the Responsibility to Protect

March 2010

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

This brief seeks to clarify how R2P applies to the pattern of atrocities in Plateau state. It urges the local, state and federal authorities to work together to take - with the assistance and encouragement of regional and international actors - appropriate measures, in keeping with the responsibility to protect.