The delicate balance between protecting citizens’ security and infringing their rights poses a significant challenge to governments.

There is one major issue that faces the Security Council: legitimacy.

If the Security Council fails to reform it is ultimately doomed to fail.

When the UN was formed, 22% of its members were in the Security Council; now that figure lies at only 8%.

As a collective we cannot argue to rally around the notion of human rights and allow the continued use of the death penalty. Human rights will only prevail if abolition becomes the adopted norm.

It seems unlikely that Sudan will cooperate with the ICC, by waiving Bashir’s immunities and surrendering him to the Court.

We should hope these new challenges in Ukraine and in the south with ISIS will strengthen the alliance once more for the future – a future with a potentially bigger challenge involving the economic and military rise of China.

To truly understand the Chinese we must see them through their eyes instead of our own.

States must stand against those who hijack it, however, by its very nature, R2P is a political tool and tensions exist with the ideological nature of international law.

The signing of a peace agreement between the State and the FARC will open the door to the transitional road to peace. To complete the transition successfully it will require an ad hoc legal structure that can accommodate the demands of the FARC for demobilizing its members.