Research Preparation Report

Part 1: Research Preparation Report (for Dissertation) Part 2: Could the Rwanda genocide have been prevented by the United States of America and the United Nations?

PART 1: Research Preparation Report 2,250-2,500 Words ( see attachment xid-7207096_2.pdf) PART 2: 6000 WORD DISSERTATION
Title: Could the Rwandan genocide have been prevented by the US and UN? Please address/ answer the following questions on discussion and analysis as my supervisor has
suggested I address these key controversies in the dissertation. • Was it likely that the US could have intervened? Why did they not intervene?• Did people know
it was genocide? When did they find out? The problem with labelling it genocide by officials?• At the time when they found out, logically, could they have got there
fast enough? • What was the role of the UN and why did they abandoned Rwanda? • Role of RPF. Could 5000 troops have done the job? (R. Dallaire asked for 5000
extra troops his request was denied… Neo con and Lib Hawk argue that 5000 troops would have been enough to prevent the genocide…) Book: Shake Hands With The Devil: The
Failure of Humanity in Rwanda• Would it have taken more troops to save lives?• Would intervention from the US and UN have helped to save lives?• Why? Did the US
and the UN failed to intervene?• What was the role of the USA? Do they have the biggest responsibility for not intervening? • Is the inaction of the most
powerful states towards Rwanda justified? And why?• Was there any national interest or lack of political interest?• Genocide Convention of 1948: moral and legal
responsibility• Responsibility to Protect concept: developed a great deal because of Rwanda (http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/about/bgresponsibility.shtml )
• Why didn’t the African Union play a role? • Does the intervention argument assume that once troops are deployed that they can easily stop genocide? Bearing
in mind that this genocide was taking place all across Rwanda? Could US and UN troops have stopped it?• How likely was it that Rwanda could have got involved in a
deeper war?  I Must use these sources for the literature review and explain all theories of intervention in Rwanda 1) Hermon and Peterson. (Suggest more
Hutus died than Tutsis) This is link to his book: https://libcom.org/files/Edward_Herman_and_David_Peterson_The_Politics_of_Genocide__2010.pdf (you will find a review
on his book on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hy9PJMj4h3PVkRaLsQKjWzfBmDxx0NOSf23ysYPG6hY/edit?hl=en_US and
http://monthlyreview.org/product/politics_of_genocide/ )
2) Article also by Hermon and Peterson: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/not-genocide-deniers-uncover-truth
3) L. R. Melvern, A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide (London: Zed Books Ltd., 2004)
4) A. Alan J. Kuperman, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention. Genocide in Rwanda, The Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2001:
5) Kuperman, A. (2000) ‘Rwanda in Retrospect’ Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2000 : https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/rwanda/2000-01-01/rwanda-retrospect
Which argues that reinforcements could not have arrived in time to save most victims lives. The killing happened so fast that intervention would not have helped to
save that many lives and he only considers U.S. troops intervention.
6) Explaining the Ultimate Escalation in Rwanda: How and Why Tutsi Rebels Provoked a Retaliatory Genocide By Alan J. Kuperman, Ph.D.
http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/ss12.pdf
7) a. Wertheim, S. (2010) ‘A solution from hell: the United States and the rise of humanitarian interventionalism, 1991-2003’, Journal of genocide research. 12
(3-4): pp 149-172. : http://www.columbia.edu/~saw2156/SolutionfromHell.pdf
8) Melvern, L. (2011) ‘A response to Stephen Wertheim’s a solution from hell: the United States and the rise of humanitarian interventionalism, 1991-2003, Journal
of genocide research. 13
9) and his reply to Linda… http://www.columbia.edu/~saw2156/OnMoralismAndRwanda.pdf
10) Power. Samantha, A Problem From Hell. America and the Age of Genocide, New York: Basic Books, 2002. : chapter on Rwanda:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/usdiphis/readings/Power,%20A%20Problem%20From%20Hell,%20pt.%201.pdf
11) Power, Samantha, “Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States Let the Rwandan Tragedy Happen,” The Atlantic Monthly,September 2001, p. 86. :
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystanders-to-genocide/304571/Other sources: • Could 5,000 Peacekeepers Have Saved 500,000 Rwandans?: Early
Intervention Reconsidered https://isd.georgetown.edu/sites/isd/files/ISDreport_Could_5000_Feil.pdf
• CNN As genocide raged, general’s pleas for help ignored http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/13/sbm.dallaire.profile/
• Numbers (HRW Report – Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999) https://www.google.co.uk/#q=Numbers+(HRW+Report+-+Leave+None+to+Tell+the
+Story:+Genocide+in+Rwanda%2C+March+1999)
• DATA ANIMATIONS: http://genodynamics.weebly.com/data-animations.html
• Dixon P (2012) ‘There is Nothing Politically Right that is Morally Wrong’? Beyond Realism and Idealism in the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Irish Politics
Studies, 29(2):236-257. (must use this please)
• Use Davenport & Stram to argue whether it is possible to tell how many Tutsi’s died and if the intervention was to happen who are they going to save? Were
Hutus the only perpetrators? Or were Tutsis involved also? When Victims Become Killers Book by Mahmood Mamdani. I also have to talk about idealism and realism in
intervention. Review on Davenport & Stram: http://africanarguments.org/2014/10/27/rwanda-why-davenport-and-stams-calculation-that-200000-tutsi-died-in-the-genocide-
is-wrong-by-marijke-verpoorten/
• Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter2 methodology / I have been told to use qualitative data for my methodology.
Chapter 3 Literature review and finding
Chapter 4 Analysis and discussion
chapter 5 conclusionTitle
Abstract
Contents
List chapter headings and sub-headings
Introduction
Much of the abstract is likely to be in the introduction
Literature review
Methodology and Ethics (what approach are you using, are there any ethical issues)
Plan of dissertation

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