Dangerous diplomacy
Subtitle: bureaucracy, power politics, and the role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda
By: Herman T. Salton
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780198733591
Subjects: United Nations. Department of Political Affairs; United Nations. Department of Peace-keeping Operations; United Nations Uganda; United Nations; Genocide; United Nations. Secretariat; History
Description: Dangerous Diplomacy' examines and reassesses the role of the UN Secretariat in the Rwandan genocide. With the help of new sources, including the personal diaries and private papers of the late Sir Marrack Goulding, an Under-Secretary-General from 1988 to 1997, this book situates the Rwanda operation within the context of bureaucratic friction existing at Headquarters in the early 1990s between the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). The book argues that these two units clashed not only over resources but also over the nature of peacekeeping and the 'political' limits of the Secretary-General's role. Importantly, the book also identifies the conceptual origins of the DPA/DPKO split in the gray area that separates peacebuilding and peacekeeping. The volume shows how and why power politics between global players, along with the porous borders between peacekeeping and peacebuilding, contributed to the Rwanda tragedy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.