2006 Human Security Award- Lieutenant-General Romeo A. Dallaire

During the keynote address, General Dallaire was presented with the 2006 Human Security Award for his heroic actions to save lives and protect the vulnerable in Rwanda in 1994, while serving as U.N. Force Commander, and for his subsequent efforts to educate, support and provide leadership to the world community on pressing humanitarian issues. The Human Security Award recognizes the remarkable efforts of people working to empower and protect the world's most vulnerable communities.

General Romeo Dallaire is recognized as an advocate of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding in the world's most war-torn regions. For the public at large, nationally and internationally, it was following General Dallaire's appointment as Commander of the United Nations Observer Mission- Uganda and Rwanda (UNOMUR) and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) on 1 July 1993 that the name Dallaire became synonymous with courage. In recognition of his exceptional leadership and ability during that mission he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross.

General Dallaire was summoned to the Senate of Canada on March 24th, 2005 where he continues to write and speak out against human rights abuses, genocide and ethnic cleansing. He continues to focus on human rights and the plight of war affected children in articles and lectures in Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and Africa. In April, 2006 he was appointed to a United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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• Human Security
• Dallaire
• Rwanda
• United Nations
• human rights
• Genocide
• UNOMUR
• peacemaking
• peacekeeping
• peacebuilding
• advocacy
• CUSA
• UCI
• UC Irvine
• Africa

[ChrisCoCompany]

Romeo Dallaire's clear vision and ability to allow me to see what it is to be a man, a human being.

The suffering that RWANDA had to endure because we, who invented this global world, were not there when humankind needed us most.

I hope that our connectivity around the world will not only be driven by markets, but by a sharing of our life stories everywhere in our world.

[endgiver]

Great man, I feel he would be served well by a translator if he is more comfortable thinking in French.