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This chapter focuses on the case of Darfur, which offers important lessons as to the implementation of R2P in its 20-year history. To date, most accounts of Darfur have focused on the elements of the responsibility to react and considered it as a failed test case of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Nevertheless, the Darfuri case also allows us to reflect on issues of prevention, state sovereignty and sustainable prevention. Accordingly, this chapter addresses the predicaments present in the initiatives that curtailed a prompt and effective intervention in Darfur. It explicates how the crisis unfolded and examines fundamental aspects that could have helped to prevent the genocide at an early stage. It continues to discuss the harm instigated by the delayed response vis-à-vis the failure to eradicate existing tensions and questions the consequences of the non-implementation of the responsibility to rebuild. The chapter concludes that the non-involvement of the international community to ascertain a transformation period that would aid to eradicate tension among different ethnic groups is a question that needs to be addressed along with the reconsideration of the responsibility to rebuild as part of the R2P framework.
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Afewerky, R.K. (2022). Darfur: R2P and Dilemmas of Implementation. In: Gözen Ercan, P. (eds) The Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90731-0_3
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