ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores India's position towards the responsibility to protect (R2P) in terms of the broad contest between traditional interpretations of the sovereignty norm and the challenge to this status quo posed by the R2P norm. It shows that India's formal position on R2P changed somewhat after India's new United Nations (UN) Ambassador Hardeep Puri Singh began to consistently articulate in UN forums what former-Foreign Minister Shyam Saran said was India's 'true' position on R2P. One which was arguably more nuanced than Nirupam Sen's trademark hard-line rejectionism. The book considers what this might mean for the R2P norm's fortunes more broadly, which requires some initial discussion about the wider, global status of R2P at the end of 2014 and what scholars have been saying about the effects of the crises in Libya and Syria on the R2P norm.
