Sixty years ago today on 9 December 1948, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by Resolution 260 (III). Outside in the hallway, an unassuming lawyer from Warsaw sat alone upon the floor in tears. His fifteen years of effort to name and prohibit the crime of "genocide" was finally rewarded. For the man who asked, "Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of a single individual?", Raphael Lemkin demonstrated what a difference a sole individual can make in shaping international law. Yet, despite Lemkin's efforts to ensure legal mechanisms to deter and punish future mass atrocities, the international community continues to struggle with the modern crime of genocide and the adequacy of mechanisms for international cooperation in the deterrence and punishment of the offenders. The Genocide Prevention Task Force concludes that the most important legal force to prevent genocide is a UN Security Council resolution, "if it is possible to obtain one." More