Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide

Rwanda 1994: A Failure of Leadership and a Preventable Genocide is a well-researched and provocative work that challenges the dominant explanatory framework of the Rwandan Genocide. Much of the established scholarship, particularly by Samantha Power and Alison Des Forges, locates responsibility for the failure of the international community to intervene. Paolo G. Tripodi advances a far more unsettling proposition: that the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), even with limited resources, possessed the tactical capacity in the early phase to disrupt or mitigate the unfolding genocide.