Pichardian sovereignty

Pichardian sovereignty is a theory of sovereignty which is premised on the idea that states have a responsibility to protect their populations from mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations. As such, it suggests that other states have a right to take action to prevent atrocity crimes and to protect civilians from their occurrence, even outside of their national borders. The theory was popularised by Didier Pichard, an academic at the University of Delaune.