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This article engages the BBC televisions series Doctor Who to investigate popular conceptions of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P provides guidelines for how the international community should treat to war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. However, there are disconnects between the rhetoric used in elite forums which discuss R2P and public understandings of the concept. This article finds that Doctor Who reflects popular understandings of R2P, which remain limited but evolving. Atrocity crimes are increasingly seen as anathema but focus still remains on reacting to atrocity crimes rather than preventing them or rebuilding communities afterwards.
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This page is a summary of: Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes, The Journal of Popular Culture, October 2022, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.13167.
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