Author profile: Paul Magnarella

Paul J. Magnarella holds a J.D. with Honors, University of Florida College of Law, and a Ph.D., Harvard University. He served as the Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Warren Wilson College (2004-2013) in Asheville, NC. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Peace Studies Journal and the Journal of Third World Studies. He has served as Expert-on-Mission with the UN Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and as Legal Counsel to the American Anthropological Association’s Human Rights Committee. He is Past President of the Association of Third World Studies and recipient of ATWS’s Presidential Award for outstanding contributions to Third World Studies. His book Justice in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide, Its National Courts, and the UN Criminal Tribunal (2000) received the ATWS’s Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Raphael Lemkin Book Award. His most recent book is Human Rights in Our Time (2011).

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Paul Magnarella • Apr 14 2014 • Articles

UN and foreign military interventions may have postponed the 1994 genocide that occurred in Rwanda, but they would not have solved the underlying problems that led to it.

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