It’s been far too long. Sorry about that. I can hardly claim there’s been any lack of developments to write about, what with the arrest of Nkunda and subsequent operations against the FDLR in eastern Congo, the sad loss of Alison des Forges, all the recent controversy surrounding the ICC’s indictment of the President of Sudan, and [...]
Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights has released its report into January’s post-election violence. Entitled On the Brink of the Precipice, the report (promised to appear on the KNCHR website shortly) concludes that some of the violence was premeditated, financed by local politicians and business people, and included crimes against humanity. Naming planners and perpetrators, and making recommendations on changing [...]
A sincere commitment goes a long way to reinforcing a sense of responsibility and increasing the likelihood of taking subsequent action. (Psychologists suggest that this is essentially because we prefer to be consistent, thus avoiding a sense of ‘cognitive dissonance’.)
Individual responsibility is highly relevant to the lofty goal of genocide prevention, because we need to reach a [...]
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