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How did the Srebrenica genocide affect NATO actions during the Bosnian War?

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral. — Srebrenica genocide Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

The Srebrenica genocide served as a critical turning point that galvanized Western intervention in the Bosnian War. Prior to the massacre, NATO had conducted only isolated and ineffective air strikes at the request of the United Nations.1

Following the failure to protect the Srebrenica "safe area" and a subsequent attack on a Sarajevo marketplace, NATO shifted its strategy to launch more concentrated, decisive air strikes against Bosnian Serb targets late in 1995. This intensified military pressure, combined with a large-scale land offensive by Bosniak-Croat forces, successfully compelled Bosnian Serb leadership to participate in U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations. These efforts ultimately led to the Dayton Accords, which established a framework for peace and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to enforce the agreement.12