He is fluent in his native French, as well as English and Spanish. Prunier has published over 120 articles and five books. He later also became Director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. In 1984, he joined the CNRS scientific institution in Paris as a researcher. Prunier received a PhD in African History in 1981 from the University of Paris, spending a year at Harvard University and a stay in Caracas, Venezuela. particularly the Horn of Africa and the African Great Lakes regions. He specializes in African history and affairs ) is a French academic, historian, and consultant. He argues there are no quick-fix solutions, because the basic concepts are wrong, or at the very least wrongly applied, and that if we cannot do something properly, we should not do it at all.Gérard Prunier (born 14 October 1942 in Paris He concludes that in many ways the failed peacekeeping operations in Rwanda and Darfur are exemplary, not because of what peacekeeping advocates hope are technical mistakes, but because the basic concepts of why the operations were undertaken at all. He then sums up seven commonly held illusions about peacekeeping: a) Parties stop fighting because they recognize the inanity of conflict b) “Give war a chance” is wrong c) A bad peace is better than a good war d) A peacekeeping military force on the ground changes the reality e) A pro-forma stabilization of peace is enough to start a peacekeeping operation f ) ‘Conflict’ is an operational concept and g) We deal with the present, the past belongs to historians. His conclusion is that in both cases there was either no ‘peace’ to keep for the ‘peacekeepers’, or several of the actors had no intention of respecting the peace agreement. On the basis of his wide experience as a scholar of African politics, the author gives his answer to the question why.
He finds one main common point: the basic incapacity to turn the Responsibility to Protect from a virtuous doctrine into a practical reality.
The author compares the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the crimes against humanity and possible genocide in Darfur (since 2003).
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