Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2012

The Lord's Resistance Army and the Responsibility to Protect

November 2011

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

This brief seeks to clarify how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) applies to the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and examines the measures that should be taken by regional governments, the African Union (AU), donor governments and the UN Security Council in order to protect populations under threat.