Sovereignty As Responsibility, Responsibility to Protect and International Order: On Responsibility, Communal Crime Prevention and International Law/Yukumluluk Olarak Egemenlik, Koruma Sorumlulugu Ve Uluslararasi Duzen: Yukumluluk, Toplumsal Suclari Onleme Ve Uluslararasi Hukuk Uzerine (Report‪)‬

Introduction Central in the responsibility to protect (R2P) framework is a re-characterization of sovereignty "from sovereignty as control to sovereignty as responsibility in both internal functions and external duties of states." (1) This re-conceptualization has caused concern to a number of developing and developed countries. (2) Some have suggested that R2P "threatens" sovereignty. (3) Yet, the UN Secretary-General emphasizes that during the 2005 World Summit "the assembled Heads of State and Government made absolutely clear, the responsibility to protect is an ally of sovereignty, not an adversary [... It] seeks to strengthen sovereignty, not weaken it." (4) The R2P framework "seeks to help States succeed, not just to react when they fail." (5) Yet, while the R2P framework may not contest sovereignty per se, it presents "a challenge to traditional conceptions of state sovereignty." (6)