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International humanitarian icon and bestselling author General Romo Dallaire guides readers on a crucial and inspiring journey from past wars through post-modern conflict toward a vision of lasting peace.In The Peace, Romo Dallaire shows us the past, present and futureof war through the prismof his own life. Trained in classic warfare during the Cold War era of mutual deterrence, Dallaire in good faith commandedthe UNs peacekeeping mission forRwanda in 1994, only to see thecountry abandoned and descend into the hell of genocide. The battered, tortured warriorwho emerged from that catastrophe grew determined to help repair the new world disorderto prevent genocide, abolish the use of child soldiers, and find ways to intervene in, even prevent, conflicts in defence of humanity. And so Dallaire helped advance the doctrines of Responsibility to Protect and the Will to Intervene only to witness those initiatives falter because of the same old power politics, national self-interest and general indifference that had allowed the genocide in Rwanda to unfold unchecked.
In his final act, Dallaire has become a warrior working towards a better future in which those old paradigms are rejected and replaced. In The Peace he calls out the elements thatundermine true security because they reinforce the dangerous, self-interested belief that balance of power andtruces arethe best we can do. Too often we say we are at peace because the bombs are falling elsewhere and we, ourselves, are not under attack. Dallaire shows us a path, instead, to what he calls the peace, a state where, above all else, humanity values the ties that bind us and the planet togetherand acts accordingly. This book is the cri de coeur of a warrior who has been to hell and back and hopes to helpguide us to a better place.
