Nigeria is on a tipping trajectory where the failure to protect and secure the human capital is fueling general insecurity across the country and the further decline of peace and stability. Stakeholders who raised these concerns also worry that placing the security of the state and that of a few individuals above the protection of the generality of citizens is the perfect recipe for a failed state. These were the issues on the front burner at the fifth National Summit on Mass Atrocities by Global Rights and Partners, with the theme, “A Standing Responsibility to Protect,” an event held to addr…