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Author Archives: Matthew Lower and Thomas Hauschildt

Matthew Lower is the leader of the HSC’s policy unit. He also works for a UK public policy organisation and is an associate analyst with the Partnership for Research in International Affairs and Development. His interests within the centre are the Responsibility to Protect and Western foreign policy analysis. Thomas Hauschildt was the leader of the HSC's Human Rights and Conflict Resolution group. He worked in the field of conflict resolution as well as the German Navy and NATO.

The Media as a Tool of War: Propaganda in the Rwandan Genocide

Matthew Lower and Thomas Hauschildt May 9, 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa

The Rwandan genocide serves as a stark reminder how little the international community has learnt from the horrors of the Holocaust; in view of not only the vast crimes committed, but the abject inaction to prevent a genocide which had “one of the highest casualty rates of any population in history from non-natural causes.”