Part 1. The concept of R2P: From sovereign responsibility to R2P / Roberta Cohen ; The responsibility to prevent: toward a strategy / Lawrence Woocher ; The responsibility to react / Frank Chalk, Romeo Dallaire and Kyle Matthews ; The responsibility to rebuild / Albrecht Schnabel ; The challenges facing R2P implementation / Robert W. Murray ; What is right with R2P? / Frank Egerton -- Part 2. Developing and operationalising R2P: Operationalising protective intervention: alternative models of authorisation / Nicholas J. Wheeler and Tim Dunne ; Who should act? Collective responsibility and the Responsibility to Protect / Jennifer M. Welsh ; Mobilising the troops: generating the political will to act / Tom Keating ; Leadership and the Responsibility to Protect / Abiodun Williams and Jonas Claes ; R2P and natural disasters / Joanna Harrington ; The Responsibility to Protect and child soldiers / Shelly Whitman ; Securing consistency for consistent security: gender and the Responsibility to Protect / Jennifer Bond and Laurel Sherret ; Making R2P work: now and in the future: Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock -- Part 3. The view from over here: Paper tiger or platform for action? South Asia and the Responsibility to Protect / Sarah Teitt ; The economic community of West African States and the Responsibility to Protect / Kwesi Aning and Samuel Atuobi ; Evaluating the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect in East Africa / Afyare A. Elmi ; Southeast Asia: between non-interference and sovereignty as responsibility / Alex J. Bellamy and Catherine Drummond ; R2P in the Middle East and North Africa / Mojtaba Mahdavi ; Concluding thoughts / W. Andy Knight

1. Atrocities -- Prevention
2. Humanitarian intervention