The Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Under what circumstances might the Security Council sanction an intervention to prevent or halt mass atrocities be justifiable, whether legally or otherwise?

 Adity Rahman Shah The core principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) postulates that the state sovereignty implies responsibility,[1] i.e. the state is imposed with the primary responsibility to protect the population from persecution and when it is required, the responsibility even extends beyond the border. In other words, a state has an obligation, under certain circumstances, …