Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series

‘Trots als een pauw dat ik komend jaar mag bijdragen aan het programma van mijn held Lt-Gen(bd) Roméo Dallaire: Moral Courage - Leading in Times of Conflict and Crisis, over (oorlogs)trauma, oorlogsmisdaden en mensenrechten. Check it out en schrijf je in: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/dossiers/the-university-and-the-war/cleveringa-chair/moral-courage-leading-in-times-of-conflict-and-crisis’ — Roxane van Iperen

This fall, join Lieutenant-General (ret’d) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire and world experts in PTSD, children’s rights, war crimes, humanitarian law, and peacekeeping for a series of important 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 will elaborate on topics covered in the Cleveringa lecture that General Roméo Dallaire gave on 26 November 2020. This conversation series is open to researchers, students and other interested parties. Each session will be broadcast via a live videostream.

Upcoming sessions:

• 22 september: Moral leadership and courage from different perspectives

• 29 september: The cost of leadership and moral courage

• 30 september: Ethical decision making and moral dilemmas

• 13 october: Moral injury and intergenerational trauma

• 14 october: The repair of moral injury

• 27 october: Destigmatizing the impact of trauma and PTSD

• 28 october: Re-envisioning leadership (Roxane is one of the speakers)

• 10 november The pathway forward

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.