Yet Dangerous Diplomacy goes beyond these institutional pathologies and identifies the conceptual origins of the Rwanda failure in the gray area that separates peacebuilding and peacekeeping. The book shows how this friction led to a lack of coordination between key UN departments on issues as diverse as reconnaissance, intelligence, and crisis management. With the help of new sources, including the personal diaries and private papers of the late Sir Marrack Goulding-an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1988 to 1997 and the second highest-ranking UN official during the genocide-the book situates the Rwanda operation within the context of bureaucratic and power-political friction existing at UN Headquarters in the early 1990s. DANGEROUS DIPLOMACY Bureaucracy, Power Politics, and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda (2017)ĭangerous Diplomacy reassesses the role of the UN Secretariat during the Rwandan genocide.
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