Includes bibliographical references (pages 1001-1088) and index.

R2P in Theory and Practice / Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne -- Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century / Davide Rodogno -- Genocide Convention and Cold War Humanitarian Intervention / Tim Dunne and Eglantine Staunton -- Turbulent 1990s : R2P Precedents and Prospects / Thomas G. Weiss -- Sovereignty as Responsibility : Building Block for R2P / Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng -- Rwanda, Kosovo, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty / Ramesh Thakur -- Genesis of R2P : Kofi Annan Intervention Dilemma / Charles Cater and David M. Malone -- R2P Status as a Norm / Melissa Labonte -- Sovereignty / Luke Glanville -- Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect / Toni Erskine -- R2P and International Law : A Paradigm Shift? / Sir Nigel Rodley -- How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West? / Faith Mabera and Yolanda Spies -- The Responsibility Not to Veto : A Responsibility Too Far? / Justin Morris and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- UN Security Council / Alex J. Bellamy -- UN General Assembly / Megan Schmidt -- Getting There, Being There : The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser / Edward C. Luck -- UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights / Ekkehard Strauss -- Role of Regional Organizations : A Responsibility Gap? / David Carment, Joe Landry, and Sean Winchester -- African Union / Kwesi Aning and Frank Okyere -- Asia Pacific and South Asia / Sarah Teitt -- Europe and the European Union / Chiara de Franco, Christoph Meyer, and Karen E. Smith -- Russia / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Latin America / M�onica Serrano -- Arab Region / Fateh Azzam and Coralie Pison Hindawi -- United States / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Addressing the Gender Gap in R2P / Sara E. Davies -- Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P / Roland Paris -- R2P, Protection of Civilians, and UN Peacekeeping Operations / Paul D. Williams -- Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War : Complementarity and Tension between R2P and Humanitarian Action / Hugo Slim -- Use of Force / Taylor B. Seybolt -- Conflict Prevention and R2P / Ruben Reike -- Responding to Forced Displacement as a Mass Atrocity Crime / Phil Orchard -- Responsibility while Protecting / Oliver Stuenkel -- International Criminal Court / Jason Ralph -- Use of UN Sanctions to Address Mass Atrocities / Jeremy Farrall -- Politics of Global Humanitarianism : R2P before and after Libya / Michael W. Doyle -- C�ote d voire / Charles T. Hunt -- Darfur / Jess Gifkins -- Democratic Republic of Congo / Arthur Boutellis -- Kenya / Serena K. Sharma -- Libya / Simon Adams -- Mali / John Karlsrud -- Myanmar / J�urgen Haacke -- North Korea / Boris Kondoch -- Somalia / Walter Lotze -- South Sudan / Alison Giffen -- Sri Lanka / Kimberly Nackers -- Syria / Bessma Momani and Tanzeel Hakak -- R2P : The Next Ten Years / Gareth Evans -- State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China Shaping of the Trajectory of R2P / Rosemary Foot -- Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities / Kishore Mahbubani -- Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security : R2P in the Next Ten Years / Lloyd Axworthy -- R2P's Next Ten Years : Deepening and Extending the Consensus / Jennifer M. Welsh.

'The Responsibility to Protect' provides an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale - have occurred even during the post 1945 period when the United Nations was built to save us all from the scourge of genocide.