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Title: RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: REVISITING GURU NANAK’S TEACHINGS
Authors: Dr. Shveta Dhaliwal
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Dr. Shveta Dhaliwal Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & Coordinator, School of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab; Visiting Faculty, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
MLA 8 Dhaliwal, Dr. Shveta. "RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: REVISITING GURU NANAK’S TEACHINGS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 7518-7531, ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=549. Accessed Dec. 2018. APA 6 Dhaliwal, D. (2018, December). RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: REVISITING GURU NANAK’S TEACHINGS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 3(12), 7518-7531. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=549 Chicago Dhaliwal, Dr. Shveta. "RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: REVISITING GURU NANAK’S TEACHINGS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 3, no. 12 (December 2018), 7518-7531. Accessed December, 2018. ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=549.
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Abstract: Sikhism has made immense contributions to societies beyond boundaries. The lives and writings of all the ten Gurus of Sikh religion and the holy book of Guru Granth Sahib has been a great source of social, political and scientific knowledge which is highly relevant. In fact, more than being relevant, Sikhism is a guiding light to solve the problems of the world. Human rights concerns and humanitarian crisis is one such problem that the world is facing and the teachings of Sikh Gurus have addressed it. Since human rights and humanitarian crises have direct involvement of States, therefore, the United Nations has recently adopted a principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in order to fix accountability of States and rulers towards its people or any people. Interestingly Guru Nanak, the first Guru of Sikh religion, had already talked about this concept in his teachings as he was witness to the atrocities of the Mughal rulers during his times. This paper is an attempt to present a connection of Guru Nanak’s writings of fifteenth century to the modern principle of R2P of twentieth century, as we as international community are again trying to re-discover the role of religion in State affairs. This will also be explored in this paper by way of recent developments. The paper will proceed from the modern day trajectory of the concept of R2P and then to connect the idea with the times of Guru Nanak. The paper again will get back to modern day efforts to realize the importance of religious sensitivity in order to promote this concept. Hence the paper presents a revisiting of ideas revolving around R2P. This paper is also dedicated to the celebration of 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

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