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Transcript Annex I
Conference Agenda
Sunday, June 1
Dinner
Informal discussion.
Monday, June 2: Failure to Prevent
9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Working Session 1
“Peacemakers and Peacekeepers: The Promise and Perils of Arusha, 1990-1993”
Background to Arusha, e.g. Mitterrand’s La Baule speech, June 6, 1990;
introduction of multi-party system; RPF invasion of October 1, 1990
Political negotiations (July 1992-January 1993)
Massacres of Tutsi and RPF offensive of February 8, 1993
Military negotiations in Arusha, signing of Arusha agreements, August 1993
Conversation between “Peacemakers” and “Peacekeepers”
2:00pm – 5:00 pm: Working Session 2
“The Failed Peace: October 1993-April 1994”
UNSC vote to authorize peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, October 5, 1993
Assassination of Burundi president Melchior Ndadaye (October 21, 1993)
and the arrival of UNAMIR in Kigali
Jean-Pierre warning, January 10, 1994
Belgian call for a strengthening of UNAMIR, February 25, 1994
Shoot down of Habyarimana plane, killing of Belgian peacekeepers, and
beginning of the genocide, April 6-11, 1994
Tuesday, June 3: Failure to Prevent
9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Working Session 3
“Inside the UN Security Council, April –July 1994”
What did we know and when did we know it?
The UNAMIR withdrawal decision, April 11-21, 1994
Debating the “G-word”, April 21-May 5, 1994
Ending the genocide, May 15-July 18, 1994
Operation Turquoise and the victory of the RPF
Unresolved mysteries and controversies
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Working Session 4
“Lessons from Rwanda”
Conference Participants
(Unless otherwise stated, positions are those held in 1990-1994)
Major-General Henry Anyidoho, Deputy UNAMIR Force commander
Michael Barnett, Political Officer at US Mission to United Nations
Jean-Christophe Belliard, French observer in Arusha, currently director of
African Affairs at the French Foreign Ministry
Dr. Jean Damascène Bizimana, Rwandan senator, 2014
Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol, Médecins sans Frontiéres representative in Rwanda
Colette Braeckman, Africa specialist for Belgian newspaper Le Soir
Prudence Bushnell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in
the US State Department
Jean-Philippe Ceppi, reporter for Libération and Swiss radio
Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, UNAMIR Force Commander
Jean-Marc Rochereau de La Sabliere, director of Africa Bureau at French
foreign ministry
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian representative on the UN Security Council, and
President of the Council in May 1994.
Dr. James Gasana, Minister of Defense of Rwanda, 1992-1993
André Guichaoua, French sociologist and author
Lord David Hannay, UK permanent representative on the UN Security
Council.
Faustin Kagamé, communications advisor to Rwandan President Paul
Kagame, 2014
Colin Keating, New Zealand representative on the UN Security Council, and
President of the Council in April 1994
Karel Kovanda, Czech representative on the UN Security Council, and
President of the Council in January 1994
Joyce Leader, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Kigali
Patrick Mazimhaka, Vice-Chairman of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Linda Melvern, British investigative journalist and author
Edward Mortimer, Chief Program Advisor to the Salzburg Global Seminar
2014
Ami Mpunge, Tanzanian facilitator to the Arusha peace process
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Monique Mujawamariya, Rwandan human rights activist
Charles Murigande, Washington representative of the Rwandan Patriotic
Front
Jean-Marie Vianney Ndagijimana, Rwandan ambassador to Paris
Bacre Ndiaye, Special UN Rapporteur
Venuste Nshimiyimana, UNAMIR press office.
Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the UN SecretaryGeneral in Burundi
Filip Reyntjens, Belgian scholar and author
Iqbal Riza, Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations at the UN
David Scheffer, senior advisor to US Representative to the UN, Madeleine
Albright
John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights,
and Labor
Johan Swinnen, Belgian ambassador to Rwanda
Hubert Védrine, Secretary-General of the French presidency
Don Webster, lead prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,
1999-2012.
Conference Staff
Michael Abramowitz, Director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust
Education, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mark Bailey, Special Assistant to the President at The Hague Institute for
Global Justice
Tom Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive
Michael Dobbs, Senior Advisor to the Simon-Skjodt Center for the
Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nadia Ficara, Director of Donor Travel Programs and the VIP Speakers
Bureau at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Cameron Hudson, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of
Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Marie-Laure Poiré, Manager for Events and Communications at The Hague
Institute for Global Justice
Kristin Scalzo, Research Assistant at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the
Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Emily Willard, Research Associate at the National Security Archive
Abiodun Williams, President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
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