ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the development of the norm and its current and future implications for UN interventions in conflict zones. One attempt to resolve the tensions between sovereignty and the need for protection of human rights has been the development of the Responsibility to Protect norm, or R2P. The R2P focuses on instilling and installing democracy, human rights promotion and protection, good governance, the rule of law and anti-corruption strategies. The responsibility to protect is meant to form the basis for a new activism within the international community, as the ICISS report outlines for some it is an internationalisation of human conscience but for others it is an alarming breach of an international state order dependant on the sovereignty of states and on the inviolability of their territory. The development of norms such as R2P is directly connected to the development of the concept of global governance.
