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The Transformation of UN Conflict Management: Producing images of genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and beyond book cover

1st Edition

The Transformation of UN Conflict Management Producing images of genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and beyond

By Touko Piiparinen Copyright 2010
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires . Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed its pledge, most notably in 1994 with regard to the Rwandan Tutsi, and again ten years later in Darfur. This book examines how the UN failed to prevent or halt the Rwandan genocide: the most... Read more

Introduction  1. Rwanda, The Genocide of Our Time  2. A Critical Realist Approach to Conflict Management  3. UN Conflict Management of the 1990s  4. Explanatory Theories of the UN’s Failure  5. Early Warning  6. Bureaucratic Mechanisms  7. Future Visions of Conflict Management.  Conclusion

Biography

Touko Piiparinen is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research in Helsinki. He is on leave of absence from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, where he has been previously posted in the Unit for UN Affairs and as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has also worked in the Political Representative of the ISAF operation in Afghanistan, and in the KFOR operation in Kosovo.

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