Awards & Achievements
Distinguished Canadian Leadership Award (DCLA)
2004 Recipient - Roméo Dallaire
Retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire is perhaps best known
for providing superb leadership at
the head of his small force of UN
peacekeepers in Rwanda, forced to witness horrendous barbarity without
the capacity or authority to intervene.
Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire joined the Canadian army in 1964. Upon his
return from his mission in Rwanda, for which he was awarded
the
Meritorious Service Cross, he served as Commander of the 1st Canadian
Division. Promoted to Three-Star General, he was appointed to
various
senior positions before retiring in 2000.
He is now Special Advisor to the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA)
and to the Minister of International
Co-operation on War-Affected Children and Advisor to the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade on
the Prohibition of Small
Arms Distribution.
Lieutenant-General Dallaire has been invested in the Order of
Canada and has also been
awarded the United States Legion of Merit.
Honoured as the first recipient of the Aegis Award on Genocide
Prevention from the United Kingdom, he has
also received several
honorary doctorates including one from the University of Ottawa in
2003.
A highly decorated artilleryman,
senior executive and human
resources generalist, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire is an outspoken
leader for the 21st century and a true Canadian
hero.