For the past 10 years, the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has engaged with partners across the region to protect vulnerable communities from atrocity crimes. Funded by The University of Queensland and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Centre works to develop regional expertise on atrocity prevention and establish links between regional and global institutions.

APR2P has helped achieve significant progress in developing the region’s normative consensus on R2P and in building partnerships and communities of practice across the region. Today, the Centre works with partners in almost every corner of the region, stretching from Myanmar to Japan, promoting R2P and facilitating national action to prevent atrocities. The Asia Pacific is a region engaged with R2P as exemplified by the highly successful regional conference held in Cambodia to mark the tenth anniversary of R2P in 2015. The Centre has also promoted the implementation of atrocity prevention through regional action, such as the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific’s (CSCAP) Study Group on R2P and the High Level Advisory Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia