ABSTRACT
This article is comprised of three main sections: 1. A summary of the “prevailing, if circumscribed, moral and legal consensus against genocide-accompanied by three lines of argument on how to broaden the foundation of this consensus” (p. 120); 2. an examination of the Rwandan genocide and an identifi cation of the main political and strategic constraints that were at play in the failure of the United Nations and the great powers to, both in the past as well as in the present, adequately address the matter of genocide; and 3. a proposal that suggests how the UN’s capacity could be strengthened for the express purpose of establishing an effective anti-genocide regime.
