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General Romeo Dallaire has done the peacekeeping community an enormous service by painstakingly reconstructing the events that led to the Rwanda genocide and the international community’s response, or lack thereof,
The author would like to thank Helen Scanlon for her interest in her work, Tom Crick of The Carter Center who first introduced her to Liberia, Cerue Garlo and Anu
The author gratefully acknowledges the comments and suggestions made by Beth Goldblatt and Kelli Muddell in working on this case study, which also benefits from her conversations (in alphabetical order)
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