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| 2004 Program | |
| 2004 Workshops | |
| 2004 Keynote Speaker |
A speech given by Dallaire at the Carnegie Council:
http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/848.html
Commendations on the occasion of the Aegis Award presentation to General Romeo Dallaire:
http://www.aegistrust.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=43
For a brief history of events in Rwanda:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Heroes/Gen_Romeo_Dallaire.html
An interview with Frontline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/interviews/dallaire.html
Information on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR):
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/unamir1994.htm
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda:
http://www.un.org/events/rwanda/
Home page for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda:
http://www.ictr.org/default
Can It Happen Again? Frontline questions foremost leaders:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/themes/aftermath.html
National Security Archive publishes on the World Wide Web sixteen declassified US government documents detailing how US policymakers chose to be "bystanders" during the genocide that decimated Rwanda in 1994:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/press.html
BOOKS ON RWANDA, GENOCIDE AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES:
Dallaire, Romero. Shake Hands with the Devil.
Description from NPR: The former Canadian general recalls his experiences as head of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, and offers wider observations about the psychological impact of war on soldiers. (see http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1917666.html)
Barnett, Michael N. (2002) Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Summary: 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. 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.
Gourevitch, Philip (1998) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families. New York, NY: Picador.
From the back cover: "In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the killings in Rwanda, a vivid history of the genocide's background, and an unforgettable account of what it means to survive in its aftermath."
Power, Samantha (2002) A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books.
Description: A Problem from Hell is a path-breaking interrogation of the last century of American history. Samantha Power poses a question that haunts our nation's past: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to marshal the will and the might to stop genocide? She provides the answer in the form of the suspenseful story of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, access to thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power shows how those who urged U.S. action were thwarted again and again by ignorance, indifference, and above all, a failure of imagination. (From the cover of A Problem from Hell.)