LEADER 04145nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910779018903321 005 20230607223854.0 010 $a0-8014-6512-5 010 $a1-322-50299-4 010 $a0-8014-6518-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801465185 035 $a(CKB)2550000000100417 035 $a(OCoLC)797829082 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10559184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001082916 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12500337 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082916 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11101347 035 $a(PQKB)10127337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11378472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10784255 035 $a(PQKB)11167876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138335 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550070 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58404 035 $a(DE-B1597)496456 035 $a(OCoLC)1041980678 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801465185 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559184 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681581 035 $a(OCoLC)922998231 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000100417 100 $a20031110d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEyewitness to a genocide$b[electronic resource] $ethe United Nations and Rwanda /$fMichael Barnett 210 $aIthaca ;$aLondon $cCornell University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-3883-7 311 $a0-8014-8867-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction. Depraved Indifference? -- $t1. It Was a Very Good Year -- $t2. Rwanda Through Rose-Colored Glasses -- $t3. "If This Is An Easy Operation . . . " -- $t4. The Fog of Genocide -- $t5. Diplomatic Games -- $t6. The Hunt for Moral Responsibility -- $tAfterword -- $tBrief Chronology of Rwandan Conflict -- $tSelected Chronology of United Nations' Security Agenda -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhy was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. In Eyewitness to a Genocide, Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations.Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide. Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. 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. 606 $aGenocide$zRwanda 607 $aRwanda$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994$xAtrocities 607 $aRwanda$xEthnic relations 615 0$aGenocide 676 $a967.57104 700 $aBarnett$b Michael N.$f1960-$0478620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779018903321 996 $aEyewitness to a genocide$93755374 997 $aUNINA