Responsibility to Protect

Killing of the innocent forced displacement of civilian population large-scale sexual violence torture and destroying of civilian property have been going on since the dawn of civilization. Efforts to protect people against grave crimes of such atrocities more effectively both in peace and war gradually evolved over the centuries and then rapidly accelerated after the Second World War. But for the most part those horrors were met with indifference cynicism or deep disagreement about how to respond to them. As the twenty-first century began there was still no universally accepted and effective response mechanism in place to protect civilian population. And this is especially true in the case of Darfur.