Rwanda: the continent’s most admired peacekeeping force After a four-year civil war and long experience in other conflicts, its troops are trusted and feared Rwanda, once a byword for peacekeeping disasters after the 1994 genocide, today plays a disproportionate role in regional efforts to prevent conflict and protect civilians. This landlocked nation of just over 11m people is the second-largest supplier of personnel from Africa to UN peacekeeping missions—and the fifth-largest in the world. As of October 2014, the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and Rwandan police had 5,092 soldiers, 558 police and 17 military experts serving with UN missions, mainly…
