Introduction / Charles Sampford -- Falls the shadow : the responsibility to protect from theory to practice / Spencer Zifcak -- R2P + POC (+ IHRL) = R2PC : the United Nations Security Council and the hybridisation of international protection principles / Hugh Breakey -- R2P and the East Timor intervention / Clinton Fernandes -- When is there sufficient information to decide if there is an R2P situation or not? : from the intervention in Timor-Leste to the crisis in Sri Lanka / Paul Harpur -- The responsibility to prevent : could the UN have prevented the atrocities in East Timor and Kosovo? / Hitoshi Nasu -- Sovereignty and R2P ten years after East Timor and Kosovo : a failure to protect, the UN Human Rights Council and Darfur / Kevin Boreham -- Legality and legitimacy : a dozen years after Goldstone / Charles Sampford -- Refugees and military intervention in the name of the responsibility to protect / Angus Francis -- The responsibility to protect : retrospect and prospect / Ramesh Thakur.