Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
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Michael Barnett., & Michael Barnett|AUTHOR. (2012). Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda . Cornell University Press.

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Michael Barnett and Michael Barnett|AUTHOR. 2012. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. Cornell University Press.

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Michael Barnett and Michael Barnett|AUTHOR. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Michael Barnett, and Michael Barnett|AUTHOR. Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda Cornell University Press, 2012.

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In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide.

 

Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.
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