Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire

Lieutenant-General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire is a celebrated advocate for global human rights, as well as a highly respected author, lecturer, leadership consultant, international advisor, former Canadian Senator, and founder of the Fondation Romeo Dallaire and the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace, and Security. Throughout his distinguished military career, General Dallaire served most notably as Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. He continues to work tirelessly to bring national and international attention to situations too often ignored, whether the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury on veterans of security forces and their families, finding strategic solutions for lasting peace, or the prevention of mass atrocities and the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict.