ABSTRACT
Nao Seoka, Fred Grünfeld and Anke Huijboom, The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda: The Role of Bystanders, Transnational Publishers, 2007, pp xxix + 299
This book addresses the genocide in Rwanda from the perspective of whether it could have been prevented or halted by the bystanders. In Chapter 1 the authors present “Perpetrator – Victim – Bystander approach” and emphasize the role of the bystanders, particularly at the macro level (the States and the international political system), because after the end of the cold war the possibility to prevent or stop gross human rights violations is increasingly dependent on the behaviour of the bystander rather than the perpetrator and the victim.
