Genocide and the Ethics of Public Management

I met Ambassador Krueger and his wife and coauthor, Kathleen, at the American

Society for Public Administrations (ASPAs) annual conference in Dallas

earlier this year.After reading their book and chatting further with the authors,

it occurred to me that the couples firsthand experiences in Burundi might help

shed light on a cloudy applied topic: the ethics of public serviceparticularly

in the face of such horrific human rights violations.

In effect, how should a public servant behave and w