The Impossible Mandate? (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:18:17
Victoria Holt is senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she co-directs the Future of Peace Operations program which addresses U.S. policy in international capacity for advancing security and stability in war time societies. Today, she discusses the challenges that peacekeeping forces have faced in genocidal situations, and what that implies for the hybrid UN-AU force in Darfur and for the future.
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Victoria Holt is senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, where she co-directs the Future of Peace Operations program which addresses U.S. policy in international capacity for advancing security and stability in war time societies. Today, she discusses the challenges that peacekeeping forces have faced in genocidal situations, and what that implies for the hybrid UN-AU force in Darfur and for the future.
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on December 7, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
DECEMBER 7, 2007, THE IMPOSSIBLE MANDATE?
BRIDGET CONLEY-ZILKIC: Welcome to Voices on Genocide Prevention. This is Bridget Conley-Zilkic your host for this week's program. With me today is Victoria Holt, the senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center where she co-directs the Future of Peace Operations program which addresses U.S. policy in international capacity for advancing security and stability in war time societies. Thank you for joining us.
VICTORIA HOLT: It's a pleasure to be here, Bridget.
BRIDGET CONLEY-ZILKIC: Can you begin today by giving us an overview of the various ways that armed forces have been used in response to situations where massive human rights abuses or genocidal violence is being committed?
VICTORIA HOLT: Well that's an important question and I should probably start by suggesting that armed forces can certainly play many roles. They could provid...
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