Ms. Feng Yuxi is particularly interested in jus ad bellum, transitional justice, and legal theories. With her thesis, she aims to spell out her proposed understanding of the key concept “international community” in the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, which prescribes a double-layered scheme of obligations on states and, residually, on the international community as a whole, to protect populations from atrocity crimes. The main questions ask: who should be considered as part of this community? What are the defining characteristics to determine the existence of a community as such? The research bases its analyses on several premises: (1) textual examination of R2P drafters’ intentions, supplemented by interviews with key figures involved; (2) a teleological enquiry of the term “international community” necessitated by R2P’s goals; (3) a theoretical probe into the notion of “community” in light of the major scholarship in sociology, international relationships, international law and so forth. Building on these considerations, the research puts forward a tentative division of labor within the international community, with an aim to break down and thus substantiate the collective yet evasive responsibility of protection.