ABSTRACT
The record of the international community vis-a-vis the prevention of genocide in the 1990s and early 2000s was abysmal. Following the end of the Cold War, it appeared that a sea change could be taking place in international relations regarding the willingness of nations to intervene in the prevention of genocide. In 1995, Bostros-Ghali issued his Supplement to An Agenda for Peace, which called for a rethinking of his earlier statement and a dramatic overhaul of United Nations (UN) peace operations. Throughout 2005, the violence in Darfur flowed and ebbed, but then exploded again in October of that year. There are certainly lessons in the East Timor case for coalition operations and other interventions. The Kosovo intervention was even more severely criticized by those who viewed the intervention as illegal. After considerable debate, the International Criminal Court decided to absorb the UN Convention on Genocide, including its definition, directly into its Charter.
