My project will explore how and why the international community efforts to identify early signs and risk indicators for racial violence and prevention of genocide are insufficient to ensure civilian safety. I will specifically focus on the United Nations response to the 1995 Srebrenica violence against Bosniak Muslims as a case study in failed genocide prevention. I will include an analysis of the events that led up to the genocide with specific focus on elements of the situation that raised concerns or should have raised concerns in the international community; the inadequacies of preventative measures put in place and international community’s failure to support peacekeeping; the the peacekeeping mission’s inaction and failure response during the period of violence and the international policies that were contributing factors to ut; and the investigation, prosecution, and reconciliation efforts after the genocide on both the international and national levels and their impact on future peacekeeping missions and efficacy in preventing future genocidal action in the area. Primary sources including a released CIA document titled “Establish Safe Havens Around Srebrenica and Other Bosnian cities With the Use of Western Military Forces,” a UNPROFO document relating to airstrikes in the region, and a June 1995 SRSG meeting report, will be used to illustrate the international communities prevention efforts and limiting factors to it. First hand accounts from United Nations troops stationed in Srebrenica and the Dutch Supreme Court’s ruling holding the peacekeepers posted there partially responsible for a portion of the massacre will outline the failures of United Nations forces. I will also include scholarly works on Srebrenica and genocide in general such as “Genocide and the ending of war: Meaning, remembrance and denial in Srebrenica, Bosnia” and “On the Controversial Illegality of the Unilateral Use of Force for the Prevention of Genocide: The ‘Doubtfulness’ Clause Adopted by the ICJ in the Case Filed by Ukraine Against Russia”to explain the peacekeeping force’s limited ability to use violence against the perpetrators of the genocide.