Roles of States and Multilateral Institutions in Reducing Hutu-Tutsi Conflict in Rwanda: A Critical Appraisal

Abstract

The Hutu-Tutsi imbroglio is one of the current genocide debates in the international criminal court. The establishment of special courts for Rwanda genocidal case underscores the importance of this research. The late response of the international organisations in Burundi and Rwanda can be adjudged as one of the contributing factors that made over 800,000 lost their lives. Most scholarly works have not really appraised or examine the role multilateral organisations and some state actors played in quelling the tide of war in both Rwanda and Burundi. This article, therefore examines the role of multilateral organisations and state actors in curbing the Hutu/Tutsi conflict in East Africa. It is hoped this will contribute to intellectual debate on the efficacy of multilateral institutions in the maintenance of global peace and security. The work relies on existing published works and government documents with latent content analysis as the method of interpreting the text.