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Record Nr.

UNINA9910504300803321

Autore

Rawson David P.

Titolo

Prelude to genocide : Arusha, Rwanda, and the failure of diplomacy / / David Rawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2018

ISBN

0-8214-4650-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) : map

Collana

Studies in conflict, justice, and social change

ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series ; ; 65th volume

Disciplina

967.571042

Soggetti

Humanitarian intervention - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Diplomatic history

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Causes

Rwanda Politics and government 1962-1994

Rwanda Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ceasefire -- Law -- Power sharing -- Impasse -- Endgame -- Things fall apart.

Sommario/riassunto

As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana's plane in April 1994 rekindled the civil war and opened the door to genocide.  In Prelude to Genocide, Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences to seek out what went wrong. How did the course of political negotiations in Arusha and party wrangling in Kigali, Rwanda, bring to naught a concentrated international effort to establish peace? And what lessons are there for other international humanitarian interventions? The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis that is a milestone read on the Rwandan



crisis and on what happens when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.  Published in partnership with the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series.