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'.

Naomi Kikoler, Center for Genocide Prevention, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Walter Lotze, Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Berlin
Alexandra Martins, Integrity Research and Consultancy, London
Jonathan Leader Maynard, New College, University of Oxford
Ruben Reike, European University Institute
Dan Saxon, Leiden University College
Monica Serrano, El Colegio de Mexico, Oxford University, and City University New York
Sarah Sewall, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights
Serena K. Sharma, King's College London
Ekkehard Strauss, Griffith University
Jennifer M. Welsh, European Univeristy Institute, and Somerville College, Oxford University
Abiodun Williams, The Hague Institute for Global Justice

"The text is expansive, detailed, and incredibly interesting regarding the numerous and unstudied moral, legal, and operational complexities of R2P prevention, especially Sarah Sewall's chapter on military options as prevention. The volume provides rich examples that illustrate the various ways and contexts the responsibility to prevent can be implemented, operationalized, and adapted by national, regional, and international organisations and institutions. It is a text that is vital in understanding the complexities of preventing the commission and escalation of atrocity crimes, as well as R2P more generally." -- Global Responsibility to Protect