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This paper reports the proceedings of the expert roundtable on “The Responsibility to Protect and Genocide Prevention in Africa” held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in October 2008.The roundtable brought together the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General working on RtoP and the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (SAPG) with high-level African policymakers, academics, and practitioners from government, regional and subregional organizations, the UN, and civil society to (1) foster an interactive dialogue; (2) elaborate the scope and meaning of RtoP in an African context; (3) consider UN work on the prevention of genocide; and (4) flesh out the parameters of the relationship between global and regional arrangements for operationalizing RtoP and genocide prevention. The discussion largely focused on the Horn of Africa and the multiple sources of instability there.