Filling a critical gap in the literature, this volume draws on, and integrates, the fields of international relations, genocide studies, criminology, and international law to put forward a distinctive view of the 'responsibility to prevent' as crimes prevention.

• Introduction


• Part I: Concepts and Capacities


• 1: Ruben Reike, Serena K. Sharma and Jennifer M. Welsh: Conceptualizing the Responsibility to Prevent


• 2: Ekkehard Strauss: Institutional Capacities of the United Nations to Prevent and Halt Atrocity Crimes


• 3: Monica Serrano: National Focal Points for R2P: Institutionalizing the Responsibility to Prevent


• Part II: Targeted Preventive Tools


• 4: Jennifer M. Welsh: Mediation and Sanctions: Applying Conflict Prevention Tools in Atrocity Crime Settings


• 5: Dan Saxon: The International Criminal Court and the Prevention of Crimes


• 6: Sarah Sewall: Military Options for Preventing Atrocity Crimes


• 7: Jonathan Leader Maynard: Combating Atrocity-Justifying Ideologies


• Part III: Case Studies


• 8: Abiodun Williams: The Possibilities for Preventive Deployment: The Case of Macedonia


• 9: Walter Lotze and Alexandra Martins: The Responsibility to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Drawing Lessons from International Intervention in Burundi


• 10: Serena K. Sharma: The 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya: A Case of Escalation Prevention


• 11: Naomi Kikoler: Guinea: An Overlooked Case of the Responsibility to Prevent in Practice


• 12: Ruben Reike: Libya and the Prevention of Mass Atrocity Crimes: A Controversial Success


• Conclusion: An Integrated Framework for Atrocity Prevention

Dr Serena Sharma is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College. Prior to joining King's Serena was based at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) in Oxford University's Department of International Relations. She also held a Lectureship in International Relations at the Queen's College and a Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 2010 Serena was appointed as the United Nations Association (UK) Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect. She holds a PhD in International Relations and a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has served as an editor and associate editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Serena worked with the former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy.
Jennifer Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. She is co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. In July 2013, Professor Welsh was named by UN Secretary Ban ki-moon as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. Professor Welsh is the author and editor of several books and articles on the responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention, the UN Security Council, and the principle of sovereignty. She sits on the editorial boards of the journals Ethics and International Affairs and Global Responsibility to Protect, and the Cambridge University Press series in International Relations. From 2014, she will be directing a 5-year research project, funded by the European Research Council, on the 'individualization of war'.