Abstract
Good intentions may be necessary, but they are not sufficient, to prevent genocide. Unfortunately, this renders the recent report of the Genocide Prevention Task Force, Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers (the Albright-Cohen Report), a recipe for failure.1 The co-chairs, former US secretaries of state and defense Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, obviously have good intentions, and they do offer several constructive reforms. Overall, however, the report ignores the most profound lessons of past failures, declines to make the hard choices on policy dilemmas, and neglects to call for the costly military reforms that could enable intervention to prevent future genocides. A more realistic assessment of these challenges gives rise to a very different set of recommendations than that found in the report.
Recommended Citation
Kuperman, Alan J.
(2009)
"Wishful Thinking Will Not Stop Genocide: Suggestions for a More Realistic Strategy,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 4:
Iss.
2:
Article 10.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol4/iss2/10
