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Gerald Caplan


Gerald Caplan has had a varied and unusual career as teacher and academic, political and social activist, public policy analyst and public affairs commentator, and specialist in both Canadian and African issues. He has an MA from the University of Toronto and Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London; he was an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Education/University of Toronto. Co-chaired public policy commissions on Canadian broadcasting and education. Author of the report Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide for the International Panel of Eminent Personalities appointed by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (2000). A newspaper columnist and television commentator as well as a consultant on government relations. The principal author of two UNICEF State of the World’s Children reports. Member of the independent senior experts’ team that undertook an evaluation of the United Nation’s New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (2001–02) and research associate of the Economic Commission for Africa.

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SOME RESPONSES OF “THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY” TO THE 1994 RWANDA GENOCIDE

Session I: Lessons Learned from Failure

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