Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 11/2013

Report on the Regional Policy Forum on the Responsibility to Protect in Nigeria

June 2012

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

Report on the Regional Policy Forum on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) held from 11-12 June 2012 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was jointly organized by the ECOWAS Commission and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P). The main objective of the Forum was to raise awareness on the concept of R2P within the region and to critically examine existing ECOWAS policies and institutions for protecting populations against mass atrocities.