The book looks at the role of states and international organisations in their attempts to prevent the genocide in Darfur (2003-2005); from early warning to limited action in the field of humanitarian assistance, mediation, sanctions and peace-keeping. The book uses several theories to explain how decisionmaking led to the (absence) of international responses.

Fred Grünfeld, Ph.D (1991, Maastricht), was professor at the University of Utrecht in the Causes of Gross Human Rights Violations at the Centre for Conflict Studies and is associate professor at Maastricht University of International Relations in the Faculty of Law at the Centre for Human Rights. In this series he published The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda (2007) and International Crimes and other Gross Human Rights Violations (2011).
Wessel N. Vermeulen, Ph.D (2013, University of Luxembourg), is a post-doctorate researcher at OxCARRE, Department of Economics, at the University of Oxford. He published in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (2009)