The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in the Prevention of Mass Atrocities - The Case of the Defensoría del Pueblo in Colombia
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study on the role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in the implementation of the primary responsibility of States to prevent mass atrocities (MA) under pillar one of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It focuses on current international law (IL) to delimit the scope of the prevention obligations of States and assesses the relevant preventive measur