Robert Gersony is an American consultant known for his reports on conflict-affected countries, in particular in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. His most famous work, the 1994 "Gersony Report

Gersony Report

The "Gersony Report" is the name given to the 1994 findings made by a team under Robert Gersony, which was under contract to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and identified a pattern of massacres by the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels after their military victory in the civil war in...

", was never actually finished. The 'Gersony Report' was suppressed by the United Nations

United Nations

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, who had originally commissioned it, because it had reached the politically-embarrassing conclusion that the Rwanda Patriotic Front, which had taken control of the country after the Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...

, was carrying out politically-motivated mass killing. The Anguish of Northern Uganda, a report commissioned by the US Embassy in Kampala, is arguably the most cited source on the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency.

Published works

• "Rebels Create Havoc in Mozambique." Cultural Survival Quarterly. Volume 12 #2 1988. pp. 31–40. for Bureau of Refugee Programs, United States Department of State
  United States Department of State
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  , April 1988 for Bureau of Refugee Programs, United States Department of State
  United States Department of State
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  , August 1989 for United States Embassy-Kampala and USAID Mission-Kampala, August 1997 for Mercy Corps
  Mercy Corps
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  International, October 2003