357 Marina de Luengo Zarzoso The legal challenges posed by the responsibility to protect in the new security and defence landscape populations19. If the responsibility to prevent lies with the state, the responsibility to react rests with the international community and is only required when prevention fails20. - Responsibility to rebuild: while this is not expressly referred to in the Outcome Document, according to the reports we analysed, it entails peacebuilding and the reconstruction of the state, which are referred to in paragraphs 97 et seq of the Outcome Document and should therefore be considered included21. Kofi Annan’s work was continued, with greater impetus even, by his successor Ban Ki-moon. In 2008, the latter appointed Edward Luck as Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect22. His role was to continue developing and refining the concept and furthering political dialogue with the member states and other stakeholders with regard to new measures that can be implemented. His term of office ended in June 2012 and his successor has not yet been appointed. The Secretary-General’s report of 2009, entitled “Implementing the responsibility to protect”23, outlined a strategy that revolved around three pillars. Barely one year later, the Secretary-General’s report on “Early warning, assessment and the responsibility to protect” (2010)24 analysed the shortcomings and proposed ways to enhance the capacity of the UN in using the warning signs more effectively (fact-finding missions) and provide a better, more timely, flexible and balanced way to address the risks of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. On 12 July 2011, the General Assembly held an interactive dialogue on the role of regional and sub-regional agreements. The Secretary-General’s report on “The Role 19 Vid. SANCHEZ DE ROJAS DIAZ, E., “El terrorismo y la responsabilidad de proteger…cit., pag. 97. 20 Vid. AÑAÑOS MEZA, M.C.: op. cit., pag. 170. 21 Ibid. 22 There is a common office for the prevention of genocide and the responsibility to protect which is charged with maintaining and strengthening existing agreements, even in relation to capacity-building and the collection and analysis of information from outside, while adding value to new agreements for the promotion of defence, intersectoral evaluation, common policy and the accumulation of knowledge on how to anticipate and prevent crises and respond appropriately to them from the point of view of the responsibility to protect. Currently, the Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide is Adama Dieng. 23 Vid.http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/Report%20of%20the%20SG%20Implementing%20 the%20RtoP%20ESPANOL.pdf. 24 Vid. http://www.un.org/es/comun/docs/?symbol=A/64/864.
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