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Global Bystander to Genocide: International Society and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

Nicholas J. Wheeler

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Abstract Charts the limits of the new norm of humanitarian intervention by showing how international society failed to prevent and end the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. After three months of the genocide, France did intervene and the chapter considers the dubious humanitarian credentials of this intervention.

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Abstract Charts the limits of the new norm of humanitarian intervention by showing how international society failed to prevent and end the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. After three months of the genocide, France did intervene and the chapter considers the dubious humanitarian credentials of this intervention.

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Abstract Charts the limits of the new norm of humanitarian intervention by showing how international society failed to prevent and end the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. After three months of the genocide, France did intervene and the chapter considers the dubious humanitarian credentials of this intervention.

Key concepts: Genocide, Humanitarian intervention, Bystander effect, Political science, Intervention (counseling), Norm (philosophy), Criminology, Sociology

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