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Tom Burn

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27th March 2015 Canberra, Australia

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by Tom Burn

Political Officer

Supporting R2P in Asia

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment at the 2005 World Summit of the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). The governments present agreed that they had a responsibility to protect civilian populations from genocide and mass atrocity events. This could be in three ways: a state protecting its own populations; a state […]

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About Tom Burn

Tom Burn is a Political Officer in the Foreign & Security Policy Team at the British High Commission in Canberra. He has been in Australia since November 2010, and has…

Tom Burn is a Political Officer in the Foreign & Security Policy Team at the British High Commission in Canberra. He has been in Australia since November 2010, and has previously served in Iran.

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