Foreword: Ervin Staub; Introduction: Samuel Totten; Part I. Fundamental Concerns; A. Humanity’s Responsibility;
1. "Using Norms, Knowledge, and Narratives for the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide" Johanna Ray Vollhardt;
2. "To Act or Not to Act Immediately? Is There Really a Question?" Agnieszka Bie?czyk-Missala;
3. "Between Empathy and Fear: Recalibrating Incentives for Atrocity Prevention" Eyal Mayroz;
4. "When Outsiders Are Threats: How to Move Beyond a Culture of Fear to a Shared Sense of Humanity" Carla Barqueiro; B. Critical Factors Vis-a-vis Issues of Prevention and Intervention;
5."Preventing Deadly Conflict" I. William Zartman;
6. "The Foot Soldiers of Evil ? On the Importance of Individual Perpetrators in Genocide Prevention" Timothy Williams;
7. "Protection of All Peoples: Ending Double-Standards and Embracing Justice" Stephen Zunes;
8. "Genocide and/or Ethnic Cleansing: Recognition, Prevention and the Need for Definitional Clarity?" Clotilde Pegorier; Part II. Lack of Political Will Is Not the Only Obstacle to Preventing Genocide;
9. "Will the World Ever Be Interested In Stopping Atrocities?" Kurt Mills;
10. "How Three Common Misconceptions Get in the Way of Preventing Genocide" Lawrence Woocher;
11. "When Are We All Truly Going to Get Serious?" Samuel Totten; Part III. Commentary on Past and Current Approaches to Prevention and Intervention;
12. "Whither Anti-Genocide Efforts? Some Personal Reflections" Thomas G. Weiss;
13. "The Final Battle" Alex J. Bellamy;
14. "Questioning the Turn Towards the "Responsibility to Prevent" Aidan Hehir;
15. "Why the R2P Backfires (And How to Fix It)" Alan J. Kuperman; Part IV. Innovations Still to Be Considered/Implemented;
16. Local Structures of Prevention and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide as an Individual Right Ekkehard Strauss;
17. "The Al Capone Strategy: Follow The Money" Rebecca Tinsley;
18. "Reducing Genocides, One Region At a Time" Edward Kissi;
19. "The Time Has Come for Genocide Scholars to Innovate: The Critical Need to Develop and Implement New and Unique Tools for Prevention" Israel W. Charny;
20. "Putting Moral Agency and the Precautionary Principle to Work for the Prevention of Genocide and Its Incitement" Elihu D Richter;
21. "Rethinking Genocide Prevention" Gregory H. Stanton;
22. "Subterranean Atrocities: A Twenty-First Century Challenge for Mass Atrocity Prevention" Charles H. Anderton;
23. "Using Satellites to Detect Mass Human Rights Violations: A Call for the International Community to Implement an Early Warning Detection System" Andrew Marx; Part V. Holding Perpetrators Responsible: No Impunity;
24. "No More Lies: Genocide Prevention through Perpetrator Accountability" Melanie O’Brien;
25. "Lessons Staring Us in the Face" Linda Melvern; Part VI. Now What?;
26. "Resilient Societies and Atrocity Prevention" Stephen McLoughlin;
27. "Whither Genocide Prevention?" Karen E. Smith;
28. "Why the (Western) Cavalry Isn’t Coming and What We Can Do About It" Maureen S. Hiebert;
29. "‘So the World May Know All’: The Importance of Education for Genocide Prevention" Deborah Mayersen;
30. "All the Candidates Agreed About Darfur, and Then …." John Hagan;
31. "What’s It Going To Take? Last Thoughts on Preventing Genocide" John Hubbel Weiss;
32. "From the Clenched Fist to the Open Hand: A Last Lecture and First Lesson from Critical Genocide Prevention Studies" Alexander Laban Hinton;
33. "Genocide Structures the Very World We Live In" Henry C. Theriault;
34. "My Last Lecture: Some Central Elements of Prevention" Ervin Staub;
35. "The Withdrawal of States from the International Criminal Court: A Potential Set Back in Relation to the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity?" Etienne Ruvebana;
36. "Anti-Genocide" Christopher Powell;
37. "So Where Do We Go From Here? A View from Bosnia and Herzegovina" Edina Be?irevi?;
38. "Double Standards and the Quest for Justice" William A. Schabas;
39. "Making Sense of the Senseless" Michael Barnett; Afterword Mukesh Kapila