Military Intervention to Stop Mass Atrocities

Abstract

This monograph examines the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in an effort to determine whether or not military intervention by the United States would have prevented this catastrophe. This monograph investigates the circumstances that resulted in the international community's failure to intervene in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and evaluates the strategic context for the lack of intervention in Rwanda through the military intervention criteria outlined in the 2001 ICISS Responsibility to Protect (R2P) report. This paper then reviews the strengths and weaknesses of varying military intervention options to determine whether these actions were feasible in Rwanda. The paper concludes that, although the United States had just cause to intervene to stop the Rwandan atrocities, it would not have been as effective as the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was in ending the violence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 2017
Accession Number
AD1039172

Entities

People

  • Pattrick Ladner

Organizations

  • School of Advanced Military Studies

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

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  • Civil War
  • Department Of State
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Sociology
  • Sociopolitics
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  • History
  • Sociology

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  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Strategic Security Studies