Prof Gareth Evans, Co-Chairman of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect and former Foreign Minister of Australia, discusses R2P's principles and motives, responds to criticisms over its ideals, his position in the institution and the ongoing Syrian crisis (and the US' latest military incursion into the Middle East).

He also answers detractors like Anthony Loewenstein and Noam Chomsky and offers a perspective on human rights abuses in Malaysia.

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