iR2P

the individual Responsibility to Protect

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Why focus on individual responsibility?

By Fred • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: iR2P Updates

A sincere commitment goes a long way to reinforcing a sense of responsibility and increasing the likelihood of taking subsequent action. (Psychologists suggest that this is essentially because we prefer to be consistent, thus avoiding a sense of ‘cognitive dissonance’.)
Individual responsibility is highly relevant to the lofty goal of genocide prevention, because we need to reach a [...]