Book Talk: From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide

Speaker: Joyce Leader - Author, Ambassador to Guinea and previously Deputy Chief of Mission (deputy Ambassador) in Rwanda
A three-way ethnic and regional struggle to control transitions to democracy and peace was underway in Rwanda in the early 1990s. This jockeying for power dominated Joyce Leader's time at the United States embassy there as the ambassador’s deputy in the years preceding the genocide of 1994. How did this struggle, which began on a high note of hope for positive change, escalate to mass atrocities and genocide? What prompted the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 to one million Rwandans in 100 days? Why did diplomacy fail to prevent this total break-down? What might be done in future to avoid a similar outcome elsewhere?

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