Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
Posted 14 April 1996

The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience

March 1996

Published by: Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda

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Study 2: Early Warning and Conflict Management

by:

Howard Adelman: York University, Toronto, Canada
Astri Suhrke: Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

with contributions by: Bruce Jones: London School of Economics, U.K.

Contents

Preface
Executive Summary
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Festering Refugee Problem
Chapter 2: Civil War, Civil Violence and International Response (1 October 1990 - 4 August 1993)

• Track I: Civil war and the response
• Track II: Civil violence and human rights conditionality
  

Chapter 3: Implementing and Subverting the Peace Agreement (4 August 1993 - 6 April 1994)

• Implementing the peace agreement
• Civil violence and the subversion of the peace agreement
  

Chapter 4: Crisis and Withdrawal (6 April 1994 - 21 April 1994)

• Crisis
• Withdrawal
• The media
  

Chapter 5: Retroactive Conflict Management (29 April 1994 - August 1994)

• Changing the mission: UNAMIR II
• Deploying UNAMIR II
• Opération Turquoise
  

Chapter 6: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: The End and the Beginning of Conflict (May 1994 - May 1995)

• The refugee camps: humanitarian and security issues
• Searching for solutions
• Internally displaced: Kibeho
  

Chapter 7: Conclusion

• Early warning
• Conflict management
• Chapter 8: Recommendations
• General - humanitarian realism
• Policy approaches to conflict management
• Early warning
  • The parties
    

Endnotes

• Part I
• Part II
  

Appendix:

• References
• Interviews
• Bibliography
• UN documents
• Other official documents
• Newspapers and periodicals

Editor: David Millwood
Cover illustrations: Kiure F. Msangi
Graphic design: Designgrafik, Copenhagen
Prepress: Dansk Kliché Copenhagen
Printing: Strandberg Grafisk, Odense

ISBN: 87-7265-335-3 (Synthesis Report)
ISBN: 87-7265-331-0 (1. Historical Perspective: Some Explanatory Factors)
ISBN: 87-7265-332-9 (2. Early Warning and Conflict Management)
ISBN: 87-7265-333-7 (3. Humanitarian Aid and Effects)
ISBN: 87-7265-334-5 (4. Rebuilding Post-War Rwanda)

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