Essay On Boutros Ghali

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Boutros – Ghali and the Rwandan Genocide Born in Cairo on November 14, 1922 into a Coptic Christian family, Boutros Boutros-Ghali grew to become the sixth Secretary-general of United Nations (UN). In 1946, he graduated from Cairo University and furthered his education on to receive his Ph.D in international relations from the University of Paris. Serving as the first Arab and first African holding the leading UN position, according to (Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.), he was faced with many challenging peacekeeping operations in Herzegovina and Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda. With this text, however, I seek to offer a non-judgemental scrutiny of Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s leadership before, during and after the Rwandan genocide. Boutros-Ghali, before the Rwandan genocide, was very instrumental in ensuring peace between the Israelis and the Egyptians. The Egyptians have been against the creation of the Jewish state at the detriment…show more content…
This took place when Boutros was the secretary-general of the UN and four years after he had sent the arms to the Hutus. During the genocide, Boutros, like good-to-great leaders do (Collins, 2001), pointed the mirror in acceptance of blame. He blamed himself for sending arms and failing to act faster to cease the genocide. He was taking responsibility for his actions. He, nonetheless, could not energize his followers, the various countries, to help cease-fire in Rwanda. Africans were unwilling to supply troops to Rwanda following the United States’ reluctance to help in calming the situation. Here, Boutros had the passion for helping solve the problem, he had energy but he did not possess the ability to influence (or energize) his followers. He was thus considered an ineffective leader and was denied a second opportunity to serve as secretary-general for
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