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while their own journalists are severely

restricted or denied visas and their cable

news networks are completely shut

out o    China’s and Russia’s broadcast

markets. Democracies, and democratic

institutions such as universities and

think tanks, must also coordinate more

closely with one another to share infor-

mation and protect against divide-and-

rule tactics.

Beyond this, the United States must

go back to being present in, and

knowledgeable of, the countries on the

frontlines o     authoritarian states’ battles

for hearts and minds. This means a

dramatic ramping up o    programs such

as the Fulbright scholarships (which

the Trump administration has repeat-

edly proposed cutting); the Boren

Fellowships, which support U.S. students

studying critical languages abroad;

and other State Department programs

that send Americans to live, work,

lecture, perform, and study abroad. It

must also go back to welcoming people

from those countries to the United

States—for example, by bringing many

more journalists, policy specialists, civil

society leaders, elected representatives,

and government o†cials to the United

States for partnerships and training

programs. This is precisely the wrong

moment for the United States to turn

inward and close its doors to foreigners,

claiming that it needs to focus on its

own problems.

To confront the Chinese and Russian

global propaganda machines, the United

States will need to reboot and greatly

expand its own public diplomacy e‡orts.

China is audaciously seeking to control

the global narrative about itself, its

intentions, and its model o  governance.

Russia is spreading its own line—pro-

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and can be found in better bookstores and through online book retailers.

When human beings are at their worst — as they

most certainly were in Rwanda during the 1994

genocide — the world needs the institutions of

journalism and the media to be at their best. Media

and Mass Atrocity:  e Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

revisits the case of Rwanda, but also questions

what the lessons of Rwanda mean now, in an age

of communications so dramatically in† uenced by

social media and the relative decline of traditional

news media.

Media

and Mass

Atrocity

The Rwanda

Genocide

and Beyond Foreword

Roméo Dallaire

Editor

Allan Thompson

25 years since the Rwanda

genocide, there is still

much to learn

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