As noted above, the responsibility to protect concept also directs attention to
decisions other than those involved in the resort to force. According to the ICISS report,
decisions about protection now involve not simply the decision about whether to use
force, but the myriad decisions authorized by the notion that the responsibility to protect
involves not just a responsibility to react, but also a responsibility to prevent and to
rebuild. Although the scope of the responsibility to protect concept as endorsed in the
World Summit Outcome is narrow, being limited to the responsibility to protect
populations against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity,
the practices envisaged for the implementation of the concept are broad. According to
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, implementation will involve 'utilizing the whole
prevention and protection tool kit available to the United Nations system', with the
aim of 'integrating the system's multiple channels of information and assessment'
(United Nations Press Release 2008), adopting a 'unifying perspective' and facilitating
'system-wide coherence' (United Nations Secretary-General 2009). This will require
an expansion and refocusing of the UN's 'early warning and assessment capacities', to