The Path of a Genocide

The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.

I: The Movement Towards Genocide; 1: Rwandese Refugees and Immigrants in Uganda; 2: An Historical Analysis of the Invasion by the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA); 3: The Role of Zaire in the Rwandese Conflict; 4: The Development and Consolidation of Extremist Forces in Rwanda 1990-1994; 5: Hate Radio in Rwanda 1; II: Preventive Diplomacy; 6: The OAU: Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution; 7: The Arusha Peace Process; 8: French Policy in Rwanda; 9: Canadian Policy in Rwanda; 10: Rwanda: U.S. Policy and Television Coverage; III: Peacekeeping; 11: U.N. Peacekeeping in Rwanda; 12: Dilemmas of Protection: The Log of the Kigali Battalion; 13: In Search of a New Cease-Fire (April-July 1994); 14: Opération Turquoise: A Humanitarian Escape from a Political Dead End; 15: Protection and Humanitarian Assistance in the Refugee Camps in Zaire: The Problem of Security; 16: The Rwandan Genocide and the Collapse of Mobutu's Kleptocracy