• Dear Senator Sanders,
  
  I am writing because Gen. Romeo Dallaire and I would be very pleased if you would agree to become a member of the project developed by Gen. Dallaire and myself titled "The Will to Intervene" and referred to by us as " W2I" in order to emphasize that this applied research project will result in the creation of major tools to operationalize Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principles. We intend to conduct sixty very high level, off the record interviews in the US and Canada to assess why the Clinton and Chretien administrations refused to intervene in Rwanda in 1994, while they supported intervention in Kosovo in 1999, and to determine the techniques of mobilization and the most effective arguments that NGOs, major media figures, politicians and bureaucrats can deploy in the future to ensure the nuanced application of R2P principles by the United States and Canada to prevent future genocides and major crimes against humanity. In addition to a final, peer-reviewed report, we will also deliver focused handbooks for senior leaders of key NGOs, major media outlets, politicians, and high level civil servants.
  
  At this stage, aided by funds from Concordia University and other sources, we have advertised for a lead researcher and will be reviewing applications and arranging interviews after 20 July, when I return to Montreal from the International Assoc. of Genocide Scholars conference in Sarajevo. The ad is on line at: http://migs.concordia.ca/LeadResearcherW2I.htm
  
  I am sure you would like to know what your role would be as a member of the Research Steering Committee (RSC).
  
  RSC meetings will be held in Montreal at Concordia University quarterly, to advise and guide the research on the W2I project. RSC meetings will serve as forums for the discussion of strategic issues and for technical issues in which one or more of the members of the RSC has a particular competence
  
  You would be invited to attend only those Montreal meetings that pertain to your particular expertise
  
  We would like you to agree to be contactable outside those meetings to provide general direction in solving research problems
  
  The project is planned for the years 2007/2008. If you agree to serve on the RSC, we will be pleased answer any questions and to send you a formal letter of invitation. Your colleagues on the RSC will include retired senior diplomats, academics, high level civil servants, NGO leaders, and others.
  
  I am looking forward to your reply and hoping to work with you on W2I. I have admired for many years your effective, humanistic work in Congress. By way of belated introduction, I am the co-author of THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF GENOCIDE: ANALYSES AND CASE STUDIES (Yale Univ. Press, 1990) and the former president of the International Assoc. of Genocide Scholars. I am also a Prof. of History at Concordia and the Director of its Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. Gen. Dallaire is our Senior Fellow and a full partner in this applied research project. Long ago, I was a colleague at Texas A&M University of Prof. Neil Stout, now retired from the Univ. of Vermont Dept. of History. We are still good friends.
  
  I would like to send you an outline of the Will to Intervene Project, but need an address that will receive a Word attachment.
  
  All the best/Frank Chalk !
  Frank Chalk, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Canada (Jul 4, 2007)
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