Genocide Prevention is any act or actions that works toward averting a future genocide. One of the main goals of the United Nations with the passage of the Genocide Convention after the Second World War and Holocaust is to prevent future genocide from taking place. Since genocides take a lot of planning, resources, and involved parties to carry out, they do not just happen instantaneously. Using risk assessments, policy makers and NGO's can predict how at risk a country is for genocide. From this assessment of the risk, appropriate steps can be taken to stop a situation from evolving into a genocide. The overriding aim of genocide prevention is to prevent genocide entirely before a crisis or violence begins.