Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series
In the fall of 2021, Cleveringa professor Roméo Dallaire and world experts shared their thoughts about PTSD, children’s rights, war crimes, humanitarian law, and peacekeeping in a series of conversations about leadership and moral dilemma during times of conflict and crisis.
Moral courage: Leading in times of conflict and crisis
How do leaders sustain moral codes in times of adversity? How do they cope with the impact of war on the battlefield, in UN leadership, in criminal courts, and at home? How do leaders find repair following moral injury? In these sessions, prominent speakers elaborated on topics covered in the Cleveringa lecture that General Roméo Dallaire gave on 26 November 2020.
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10 November
28 October
27 October
Destigmatizing the impact of trauma and PTSD
14 October
13 October
Moral injury and intergenerational trauma
30 September
Ethical decision making and moral dilemmas
29 September
The cost of leadership and moral courage
22 September
Moral leadership and courage from different perspectives
About Lieutenant-General (ret’d) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire
Canadian Roméo Dallaire holds the 2020-21 Cleveringa Chair at Leiden University. Throughout his distinguished military career, General Dallaire served most notably as Force Commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. General Dallaire provided the UN with information about the planned massacre, which ultimately took more than 800,000 lives in less than 100 days; yet, permission to intervene was denied and the UN withdrew its peacekeeping forces. General Dallaire disobeyed the command to withdraw and remained in Rwanda to fulfill his ethical obligation to protect those who sought refuge with the UN forces.
General Dallaire’s revelation that he suffered from PTSD and moral injury as a direct result of his mission paved the way for destigmatizing this potentially lethal operational stress injury among military veterans.
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