How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article examines why the Responsibility to Protect was never invoked in Syria, and situates the question within the additional threat posed to displaced Syrians by the coronavirus pandemic. After documenting the scale of casualties and displacement and the findings of United Nations bodies on war crimes and crimes against humanity, the author analyses the reasons for international inaction: the deadlock in the Security Council and the
repeated vetoes, the fear that authorisation would be used for regime change as in Libya, the complexity of…
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