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Title:Rwanda Reconsidered: A Study of Norm Violation
Author:Glanville, LukeISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Volume:24
Issue:2
Period:May
Pages:185-202
Language:English
Geographic terms:Rwanda
United States
Subjects:norms
right of intervention
genocide
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
Law, Human Rights and Violence
External links:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000600769934
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=42119DAC0618818BBEEF
Abstract:The author contends that beliefs shared by liberal members of international society not only permit intervention but prescribe it in certain circumstances. He gives an account of the impact the norm prescribing humanitarian intervention had on the response of the United States government to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He argues that a rationalist perspective of the international response to this genocide has difficulty accounting for some of the statements and policies of the Clinton administration. These can better be explained by reference to norms. If a situation is sufficiently ambiguous for States plausibly to claim exemption from a norm, they are able to violate the norm. Yet, through the violation - through their justifications - the substance of the norm can be discerned. In the case of the Rwandan genocide, this can be seen in the framing of the atrocities as an intractable civil war and the denial of the occurrence of genocide. Clinton's apologies, four years later, for his administration's inaction, further substantiate claims that there was a perceived duty to intervene which the US and others chose to violate. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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