Rwanda and the Great Lakes region

Michelle can be reached at: m2brazier@hotmail.com Gerald Caplan is the author if Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide (2000), the report of the International Panel of Eminent Personalities appointed by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and the founder of Re- membering Rwanda: The Rwanda Genocide 10th Anniversary Memorial Project. [...] The glitter of statehood and the inherent weakness of The Responsibility to Protect document become apparent when held up to the political realities of present day life in the states of the GLR. [...] The collection of articles that we have compiled here emerged, either directly or indirectly, from Canadian Remembering Rwanda events and activities, for which Canadians and Rwandans in the Diaspora organized a series of events from Halifax to Vancouver to commemorate lives lost and to educate the Canadian public on the causes and consequences of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in the winter of 2004. [...] The challenges of absorbing the lessons of Rwanda and the chal- lenges of humanitarian intervention in light of The Responsibil- ity to Protect Report (Axworthy, Ellis & Evans, and Powell & Tieku) as well as three French-language articles from the Demo- cratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the challenges and con- straints facing civil society there (Paluku Syayipuma, Welepele Elatre and Mwaka Bwe [...] Memorializing the Genocide In the aftermath of the genocide, the international commu- nity – in the pre- Responsibility to Protect era – was convinced of the inability of the Rwandan government to restore peace and security.