Committee for Conflict Transformation Support

CCTS
Review 31

Dear Readers, In this issue freelance consultant Paul Clifford writes about the Child Advocacy and Rehabilitation programme (CAR), run by the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, which works with children traumatised by war; and Diana Francis reviews a new annotated bibliography, ‘People Power and Protest since 1945’. The rest of the issue is taken up with a discussion of the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This was first enunciated in the Canadian government-sponsored ‘Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty’ of September 2001 and subsequently taken up in various UN documents and at various gatherings, including Kofi Annan’s report on UN reform, ‘In Larger Freedom’, and at the 2005 UN World Summit. We publish here a statement on R2P that has been agreed by a consortium of British NGOs and other representatives of civil society, which will be officially launched and open for signatures in October; an article on the subject by Alan Pleydell, the representative on CCTS of Quaker Peace and Social Witness; and reflections from a pacifist perspective by Diana Francis, freelance consultant and Chair of CCTS.

Child advocacy and rehabilitation in Sierra Leone
Paul Clifford, Freelance Consultant and RTC Associate

People Power and Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action
reviewed by Diana Francis, freelance consultant and Chair of CCTS

Civil Society Group of the United Kingdom Statement on Responsibility to Protect

Giving meaning to ‘Never Again’: the International Responsibility to Protect
by Alan Pleydell, Quaker Peace and Social Witness

Pacifism and the responsibility to protect
by Diana Francis, freelance consultant and Chair of CCTS

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