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Dangerous diplomacy : bureaucracy, power politics, and the role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda

Title
Dangerous diplomacy : bureaucracy, power politics, and the role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda / Herman T. Salton.
Author
Salton, Herman
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Description
xv, 293 pages; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Goulding, Marrack
  • United Nations. Secretariat
  • United Nations Uganda
  • United Nations. Department of Political Affairs
  • United Nations. Department of Peace-keeping Operations
  • Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
  • 1900-1999
  • Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
  • Genocide
  • Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994
  • Rwanda
Genre/Form
History.
Call Number
Sc E 17-1270
ISBN
  • 0198733593
  • 9780198733591
OCLC
968447874
Author
Salton, Herman, author.
Title
Dangerous diplomacy : bureaucracy, power politics, and the role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda / Herman T. Salton.
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition
First edition
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
Sc E 17-1270
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