Mobilizing the Will to Intervene
Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities
Frank Chalk author Lgen Roméo Dallaire author Kyle Matthews author Carla Barquerio author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:1st Oct '10
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Provocative and practical counsel to make governments care about humanitarian crises
Despite the handwringing and promises of "never again," the grim recurrences of genocide and crimes against humanity around the world have made it emphatically clear that the international community has been largely ineffective in stopping mass atrocity crimes. Drawing on candid interviews with eighty key figures involved in American and Canadian responses to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the Kosovo crisis of 1999, Mobilizing the Will to Intervene explains why and provides a roadmap for change.
"Mobilizing the Will to Intervene [...] challenges government to think big, for once." The Toronto Star "These people deserve our attention when they talk about genocide. Although perhaps tilting more liberal than conservative in their outlook, they are not mushy-headed idealists obsessed with soft power. They know that in a brutal world it is often necessa "It is the kind of book that can change the world." Montreal Review of Books
ISBN: 9780773538047
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200 pages