AMBASSADOR J.D. BINDENAGEL
[Spring 2008, Volume IX]
For those of us who have confronted the issue of genocide, whether as students, scholars, public officials or concerned citizens, the film “Blood Diamond” speaks vividly to the horrors of the war in Sierra Leone financed by trade in illicit diamonds and the human cost.
We know that peace is no easy task; peace did not break out with the end of the cold war as we had hoped. Instead, we descended quickly into a world of terror, genocide and war. Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, …