Principles
The GI-NET does not make legal determinations of genocide; members have argued that recognition and response to the threat of genocide must take precedence over legal debates.
The GI-NET operates within the framework of the "Responsibility to Protect" report, produced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001. The Commission concluded that "sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their own citizens from avoidable catastrophe ... but that when they are unwilling or unable to do so, that responsibility must be borne by the broader community of states."
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1574 strongly endorsed AMIS II, whose mandate included directives to monitor a tenuous ceasefire, oversee the safe return of internally displaced persons, secure the delivery of humanitarian aid, and protect civilians "under imminent threat and in the immediate vicinity."
As of 2006, formal terms of agreement between GI-NET and the African Union are in the process of being drafted, principally by GI-NET advisory board chair Gayle Smith. Funds raised by the Network are not used to purchase lethal equipment.
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