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On Friday 17 June 2011, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Centre for International Studies, Oxford, jointly convened an event to analyze R2P's preventive agenda and ouline steps that could be taken to enhance the effectiveness of preventive startegies and tools. The recent experiences in Cote D' Ivoire and Libya demonstrate that R2P is an important factor in the decision by the Security Council to respond in a "timely and decisive" manner to the spectre and evidence of mass atrocities. Yet, the international community has faced a number of challenges in anticipating the range of policy options available and assessing their appropriateness and likely effects in these different contexts. The workshop addressed some of these gaps by bringing together scholars and practitioners to examine the normative, political and operational questions that are raised by structural and proximate R2P prevention and their long term consequences for the advancement of the principles of R2P in international society.