ABSTRACT
This chapter examines about the responsibility to protect (R2P) process and how Kofi Annan and the United Nations (UN) engaged with the outside to deal with the intervention issue and come up with a solution to it. It presents a short narrative of the development of R2P, tracing its historical antecedents until the inclusion of R2P in UN Security Council Resolution (UN SCR) 1970 on Libya in 2011 and the subsequent discussion on R2P. The chapter shows how the sociology of professions can enrich constructivist theories of norm change in international organizations by applying the theory framework. The sociology of professions theory shows that the UN secretary-general must perform a balancing act within his fiduciary responsibility and that the bureaucratic nature of the UN is important for understanding how norms change. Finally, the chapter emphasizes how the interaction with other ecologies has been instrumental in advancing the R2P norm and the role of policy alliances.
