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26 Crim. L.F. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/crimlfm26 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Law Forum (2015) 26:1-12 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 DOI 10.1007/s10609-015-9254-3 JASON RALPH* SYMPOSIUM: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT I INTRODUCTION: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND PROSECUTE 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, and the 10th anniversary of the United Nations World Summit and the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. These events of course are closely connected. R2P is part of a humanitarian response that tries to prevent the kind of crimes that occurred in Cambodia and Srebrenica. Unfortunately, these kinds of crimes are not confined to these two events. Of course, 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide and we are living through a time when war crimes and crimes against humanity are never too far from the headline news. The violent situations in Syria, Iraq, the Central African Republic and elsewhere continue to test the international community's commitment to protect populations from mass atrocity crimes. This year's anniversaries nevertheless present opportunities for reflecting on how practice has been changed by the international recognition that state sovereignty is contingent on the fulfilment of a responsibility to protect populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Several special issues are this year devoted to this kind of reflection. The purpose of this par- ticular special issue is to reflect on one specific aspect of the R2P principle, its relationship with another international norm, the re- * Professor of International Relations, University of Leeds; Honorary Professor, University of Queensland; Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, Asia-Pacific Centre for Responsibility to Protect. Support for this symposium was made available by ESRC Seminar Series Grant ES/L00075X/1. E-mail: j.g.ralph@leeds.ac.uk.

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