Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 11/2013

Libya and the Responsibility to Protect

Simon Adams

October 2012

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

This is the third paper in the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect's Occasional Paper Series. This paper addresses the 2011 uprising and civil war in Libya. The paper analyzes the debates that have shaped interpretations of the intervention in Libya and argues that R2P played a crucial role in stopping mass atrocities and saving lives.