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Eyewitness to a Genocide : The United Nations and Rwanda.

Barnett, Michael.

Eyewitness to a Genocide : The United Nations and Rwanda. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages)

EYEWITNESS TO A GENOCIDE -- Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE? -- 1. IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR -- 2. RWANDA THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES -- 3. "IF THIS IS AN EASY OPERATION . . . " -- 4. THE FOG OF GENOCIDE -- 5. DIPLOMATIC GAMES -- 6. THE HUNT FOR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- AFTERWORD -- BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF RWANDAN CONFLICT -- SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF UNITED NATIONS' SECURITY AGENDA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX.

Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.

9780801465185


United Nations--Rwanda.
Genocide--Rwanda.
Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.
Rwanda--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

DT450.435.B38 2016

967.57104/31

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