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