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The success of a complex humanitarian mission depends upon cohesive linkages of diplomatic action, security operations and relief-to-development activities to achieve a desired outcome.

The Responsibility to Protect strategy brings greater significance to the issue of ‘best practices.’

Our experience includes initiatives to address the following:

• A primary responsibility of states to protect their own populations from the crimes of: genocide, war–crimes, ethnic–cleansing, and crimes against humanity;
• The international community’s responsibility to assist states in meeting those internationally accepted obligations;
•  And, the international community’s responsibility to take timely and decisive action in cases where a state has manifestly failed to protect its own population from what would appear state sanctioned crimes.

Photo by Anita Parlow

Our experience includes participating in initiatives to address the following issues:

Photo by Anita Parlow