The Simons Forum on the Responsibility to Protect: Re-Energizing the Key Players was convened by The Simons Foundation under the auspices of the Simons Visiting Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 22-24 March 2017.
Report of the conference convened by Global Action to Prevent War and its co-sponsors - the World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP), and the World Federalist Movement of Canada
United Nations Headquarters
New York, NY
June 13 - 16, 2012
W2I is a crucial initiative pursuing the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity. After Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, genocide experts understand that pressuring political leaders to stop crimes against humanity before they become genocides has been ineffective. We know what is happening and early warnings are sounded, but governments are slow to react and intervene effectively.
The so-called “right of humanitarian intervention” has been one of the most controversial foreign policy issues of the last decade – both when intervention has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as in Rwanda.
Special to The Globe and Mail by the Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, PC, CC, OM, Ph.D. and the Hon. Allan Rock, PC, CM, OOnt, KC Published by The Globe and Mail (subscription required) September 18, 2025
Visit The Globe and Mail at the link below (subscription required) for this opinion by the Hon. Allan Rock and the Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, a Peace Shaper at The Simons Foundation Canada.
Webinar presentation to Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs by Dr. Hans Blix on his book: "A Farewell to Wars: The growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force" (Cambridge University Press, November 2023) April 2, 2025
