“Thinking Big”: Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Politics
Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, there are worries that President Paul Kagame’s growing authoritarianism threatens to undermine Rwanda’s development successes.
A Legacy Deferred?: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda at 20 Years
20 years after the genocide, the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has shown once again how justice is indispensable for sustainable peace.
Breaking the Silence: Rwandan Women Survivors Give Testimony and Find a Voice
In contemporary Rwanda, women are willing to speak out and actively shape public discourse on such issues as the government, ethnicity, the genocide, and sexual violence.
The Moral Obligation to Intervene in Rwanda
Whilst the genocide was transpiring in Rwanda in 1994, there was only one morally defensible course of action for the international community – intervention.
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide
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.
Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender from the War Narrative
The prosecution of wartime sexual violence in Africa has created a debasing narrative about the bodies of African women, raising doubts over justice’s impartiality and independence from local influences.
Moral Responsibility in International Relations: the US Response to Rwanda
The question we must ask ourselves is whether the complexity of considerations excuses inaction when confronted with situations of severe human rights violations.
Unpacking Rwanda’s Involvement in DR Congo and the International Response
Censuring Rwanda for its involvement in DR Congo could put its prominent UN peacekeeping contributions at risk. Rwanda has shown some willingness to negotiate a withdrawal of M23 from Goma.
The Challenging Road to Reconciliation in Rwanda
In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Hutus killed about 700 hundred thousand Tutsis. This piece will discuss institutions and processes of reconciliation since the genocide, discussing both their positive and problematic aspects.
R2P: Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World
While the development of R2P as a concept has been the preserve of international relations theoreticians (albeit ones with large amounts of practical experience), its implementation rests on the practitioners of the day. And these practitioners deal in the world of realpolitik with all of its inconsistencies, relativities and competing national interests.
