The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda

The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda
Author: Fred Grünfeld
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2007-05-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9047431316

This volume is about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking are scrutinized, i.e., who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that this genocide could have been prevented. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

From Hope to Horror

From Hope to Horror
Author: Joyce E. Leader
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2020-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1640123237

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAs deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wrangling, human rights abuses, and many levels of ominous, ever-escalating violence. From Hope to Horror offers her insider's account of the nation's efforts to move toward democracy and peace and analyzes the challenges of conducting diplomacy in settings prone to--or engaged in--armed conflict.' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'Leader traces the three-way struggle for control among Rwanda's ethnic and regional factions. Each sought to shape democratization and peacemaking to its own advantage. The United States, hoping to encourage a peaceful transition, midwifed negotiations toward an accord. The result: a revolutionary blueprint for political and military power-sharing among Rwanda's competing factions that met categorical rejection by the "losers" and a downward spiral into mass atrocities. Drawing on the Rwandan experience, Leader proposes ways diplomacy can more effectively avert the escalation of violence by identifying the unintended consequences of policies and emphasizing conflict prevention over crisis response.Compelling and expert, From Hope to Horror fills in the forgotten history of the diplomats who tried but failed to prevent a human rights catastrophe.

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda
Author: Omar Shahabudin McDoom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491464

Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it.

A People Betrayed

A People Betrayed
Author: Linda Melvern
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783602708

Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to respond. In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what happened. She holds governments to account, showing how individuals could have prevented what was happening and didn't do so. The book also reveals the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide, volunteer peacekeepers and those who ran emergency medical care. Fifteen years on, this new edition examines the ongoing impact of the 1948 Genocide Convention and the shock waves Rwanda caused around the world. Based on fresh interviews with key players and newly-released documents, A People Betrayed is a shocking indictment of the way Rwanda is and was forgotten and how today it is remembered in the West.

The Media and the Rwanda Genocide

The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Author: Allan Thompson
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2007-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0745326250

Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.

"Leave None to Tell the Story"

Author: Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Publisher:
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda

The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda
Author: Frederik Grünfeld
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004157816

This volume is about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking are scrutinized, i.e., who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that this genocide could have been prevented. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Lasting Wounds

Lasting Wounds
Author:
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2003
Genre: Children
ISBN: