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From Hope to Horror - Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide (Hardcover)
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From Hope to Horror - Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide (Hardcover)
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From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda
Genocide examines Joyce E. Leader's time in the struggling state of
Rwanda during the early 1990s, documenting the challenges and
troubling disruptions that the transitioning society faced,
including violence as prospective changes unleashed deep-seated
social cleavages. As diplomat at the United States embassy in
Kigali, Leader depicts her firsthand account of Rwanda's descent
from the prospect of democracy and peace into horrific genocide.
From a field perspective, From Hope to Horror follows the political
quest to maintain or gain power that ultimately unleashed a
three-way struggle leading to deep geographic and ethnic divisions
in Rwandan society. Political wrangling played out against a
background of ever-escalating violence while U.S diplomacy pushed
for a democracy and peace without realizing its own contribution to
the violent backlash from those whose power and privilege would be
diminished due to U.S policies if this democracy was reached.
Violence escalated with each step forward in either democracy or
peacemaking until genocide enveloped the country, ending in the
brutal slaughter and traumatizing of millions. Leader explores the
ways in which the United States ultimately failed Rwanda by
neglecting the unintended consequences of its policies in support
of democratization and peacemaking. While Part 1 of From Hope to
Horror documents the unfolding of pre-genocide Rwanda, Part 2 marks
lessons learned that diplomacy must take under consideration to be
more effective at preventing, mitigating, and managing conflicts to
avert genocide. This firsthand account of the political dynamics
inside Rwanda before the genocide will not only fill a gap in the
literature but will also contribute to a dialogue among diplomats
and students of genocide and conflict resolution about U.S. policy
in transitioning societies and the importance of making conflict
prevention a diplomatic and foreign policy priority.
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