Analyzing Leadership Failures in the Rwanda Genocide

Analyzing Leadership Failures in the Rwanda Genocide

Literature Review of Genocide in Rwanda(1)

Literature Review of Genocide in Rwanda: Leadership, ethics and organizational failure in post-colonial context

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Literature Review of Genocide in Rwanda: Leadership, ethics and organizational failure in post-colonial context

During mid-1994, more than 800,000 Tutsi and a moderate number of Hutus were killed in the Rwandan genocide (Long, Grant, Mills, Gaudet & Warren, 2009, p271). The international community failed to prevent and end the genocide. This happened not because they had no ability to do so, but they lacked better organizational structures and a good process of decision making. Also, the reason why the genocide spread…