The responsibility to prevent: overcoming the challenges of atrocity prevention

As the first edited collection of its kind, devoted exclusively to the preventive dimension of R2P, 'The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention' intends to inform and shape the growing debate on how to approach atrocity crime prevention and build the capacities needed to operationalise the imperatives at the heart of R2P

As the first edited collection of its kind, devoted exclusively to the preventive dimension of R2P, 'The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention' intends to inform and shape the growing debate on how to approach atrocity crime prevention and build the capacities needed to operationalise the imperatives at the heart of R2P.

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.

Examines ways to operationalize the responsibility to prevent genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Develops a strategic framework to identify the appropriate scope and substance of preventive dimensions and the tools that can be used to prevent escalation such as sanctions, mediation, international criminal justice, and military intervention