ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the EU's involvement in the recent humanitarian crisis in Libya, Syria and the Central African Republic. It explores the role assigned to regional organisations in the implementation of R2P in partnership with the United Nations and why in particular the EU has expressed its commitment. The chapter illustrates how the European Union (EU) has expressed its commitment to crises that have been discussed as varying examples of R2P and when and how the EU is able to conduct a military CSDP operation in its contribution to R2P as a partner of the United Nations. Within the developing doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), regional organisations have been said to have a potential impact on all R2P pillars. In the context of the humanitarian crisis in Libya, the UN Security Council for the first time authorised members of the international community to use military force to protect a population from serious harm.
