Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne: Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne: R2P in Theory and Practice; PART II: HISTORY; 2 Davide Rodogno: Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth-Century; 3 Tim Dunne and Eglantine Staunton: The Genocide Convention & Cold War Humanitarian Intervention; 4 Thomas G. Weiss: The Turbulent 1990's: R2P Precedents and Prospects; 5 Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng: Sovereignty as Responsibility: Building Block for R2P; 6 Ramesh Thakur: Rwanda, Kosovo and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty; 7 Charles Cater and David Malone: The Genesis of R2P: Kofi Annan's Intervention Dilemma; PART III: THEORY; 8 Melissa Labonte: R2P's Status as a Norm; 9 Luke Glanville: Sovereignty; 10 Toni Erskine: Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect; 11 Nigel Rodley: R2P and International Law: A Paradigm Shift?; 12 Faith Mabera and Yolanda Spies: How Well Does R2P Travel Beyond the West?; Justin Morris and Nicholas Wheeler: The Responsibility Not to Veto: A Responsibility too far?; PART IV: UN ORDER; 14 Alex Bellamy: UN Security Council; 15 Megan Schmidt: UN General Assembly; 16 Edward Luck: Getting There, Being There: The Dual Roles of the Special Adviser; 17 Ekkehard Strauss: UN Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights; 18 David Carment, Sean Winchester, and Joe Landry: The Role of Regional Organisations: A Responsibility Gap?; PART V: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES; 19 Kwesi Aning and Frank Okyere: The African Union; 20 Sarah Teitt: Asia Pacific and South Asia; 21 Chiara de Franco, Christoph Meyer, and Karen E. Smith: Europe and the European Union; 22 Ekatarina Stepanova: Russia; 23 Monica Serrano: Latin America; 24 Fateh Azzam and Coralie Hindawi: Middle East and North Africa; 25 Bruce Jentleson: United States; PART VI: CROSS-CUTTING THEMES; 26 Sara Davies: Gender; 27 Roland Paris: The Blurry Boundary between Peacebuilding and R2P; 28 Paul Williams: The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and Peacekeeping Operations; 29 Hugo Slim: Saving Individuals from the Scourge of War: Complementarity and Tension Between R2P and Humanitarian Action; 30 Taylor Seybolt: The Use of Force; 31 Ruben Reike: Conflict Prevention and the R2P; 32 Phil Orchard: Refugees and Displaced People; 33 Oliver Stuenkel: Responsibility while Protecting; 34 Jason Ralph: The International Criminal Court; 35 Jeremy Farrall: The use of UN sanctions to address mass atrocities; 36 Michael Doyle: The Politics of Global Humanitarianism: The R2P before and after Libya; PART VII: CASES; 37 Charles Hunt: Cote d'Ivoire; 38 Jess Gifkins: Darfur; 39 Arthur Boutellis: Democratic Republic of the Congo; 40 Serena Sharma: Kenya; 41 Simon Adams: Libya; 42 John Karlsrud: Mali; 43 Jurgen Haacke: Myanmar; 44 Boris Kondoch: North Korea; 45 Walter Lotze: Somalia; 46 Alison Giffen: South Sudan; 47 Kim Nackers: Sri Lanka; 48 Bessma Momani and Tanzeel Hakak: Syria; PART VIII: FACING THE FUTURE; 49 Gareth Evans: R2P: The Next Ten Years; 50 Rosemary Foot: The State, Development, and Humanitarianism: China's Shaping of the Trajectory of the R2P; 51 Kishore Mabubhani: Embedding R2P in a New Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities; 52 Lloyd Axworthy: Resetting the Narrative on Peace and Security: R2P in the Next Ten Years; 53 Jennifer Welsh: R2P's Next Ten Years: Deepening and Extending the Consensus

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide 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. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities. R2P maintains that collective action should be taken by members of the United Nations to prevent or halt such gross violations of basic human rights.
This Handbook, containing contributions from leading theorists, and practitioners (including former foreign ministers and special advisors), examines the progress that has been made in the last 10 years; it also looks forward to likely developments in the next decade.

Alex Bellamy is Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, New York and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He currently serves as Secretary of the High Level Advisory Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia, chaired by Dr. Surin Pitsuwan. Recent books include Responsibility to Protect: A Defense (OUP, 2015) and Massacres and Morality (OUP, 2012).
Tim Dunne is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at The University of Queensland, where he is also a Senior Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Tim is a widely published author, including most recently the co-edited book Liberal World Orders^ (Oxford: OUP/British Academy 2013). He is currently completing a co-edited book for publication with Oxford in 2016, on The Globalisation of International Society.