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How did the Srebrenica genocide contribute to the Dayton peace talks?

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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 the international community to press for an end to the Bosnian conflict. Following the massacre in July 1995 and a subsequent attack on a Sarajevo marketplace, NATO launched concentrated air strikes against Bosnian Serb targets.12

These military actions, combined with a large-scale land offensive by Bosniak-Croat forces, significantly weakened the Bosnian Serb position and pressured them to agree to U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations. These efforts culminated in the Dayton Accords, which were negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 and formally signed in December, effectively ending the three-year war.21