As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana’s plane in April 1994 rekindled the civil war and opened the door to genocide.
In Prelude to Genocide, Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences to seek out what went wrong. How did the course of political negotiations in Arusha and party wrangling in Kigali, Rwanda, bring to naught a concentrated international effort to establish peace? And what lessons are there for other international humanitarian interventions? The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis that is a milestone read on the Rwandan crisis and on what happens when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.
Published in partnership with the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. 作为最初的美国观察员 david rawson 参加了1993年在坦桑尼亚阿鲁沙举行的卢旺达和平会谈。后来,他担任美国驻卢旺达大使,在最后几个月的努力,使他们注定失败。尽管有关国家干预建立和平进程,并派驻了国际特派团,即联卢援助团,阿鲁沙和平协定的承诺仍未能实现。相反,1994年4月卢旺达总统哈比亚里马纳的飞机被击落,重新点燃了内战,开启了种族灭绝的大门。阿鲁沙的政治谈判和卢旺达首都基加利的党派纷争,怎么会使国际社会建立和平的集中努力化为乌有?其他国际人道主义干预措施有哪些经验教训?其结果是外交史和分析的完美结合,这是对卢旺达危机以及冲突解决和外交失败后会发生什么的里程碑式解读。
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价