Introduction -- 1 Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 2 The Rwanda genocide -- 3 Genocide in Kosovo -- 4 The role of nongovernmental organizations in addressing the prevention, intervention, and punishment of genocide in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s -- 5 The United Nations and genocide : prevention, intervention, and prosecution -- 6 The role of individual states in addressing cases of genocide -- 7 The international legal prohibition of genocide comes of age -- 8 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia : the repression of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 9 The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) -- 10 The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC)