Maintaining international peace and security under the principle of the responsibility to protect

Abstract

This study aims to identify the principle of the responsibility to protect and its impact on maintaining international peace and security as a new alternative approach to humanitarian intervention aimed at protecting human rights from egregious violations, by first addressing its origin and definition and the most important foundations and elements on which it is based, let us move on Secondly to the practical aspect of it by addressing the crises of Libya and Syria as they constitute a major humanitarian crisis, in which serious violations of human rights occurred, to conclude that the application of this principle in both crises was subject to the will of the permanent members due to the difference in dealing with the two crises and the failure to apply the principle to The Syrian crisis, despite the aggravation of the situation there, has affected international peace and security, and this is what made some see that this new principle is at the mercy of the great powers like other principles.