Abstract

Perhaps too much time is spent asking the wrong questions, like why does ethnic cleansing happen in places like Bosnia and Rwanda? What should also be asked, instead, is “why does it not happen in other places where it could, such as Switzerland and Canada?” Like Sherlock Holmes, we could pay more attention to the dog that does not bark, the ethnics that do not cleanse.

There is a strange statue in a Swiss park that prompts some brief reflections here about the enigma of Swiss success. It is in a prominent spot, right in the middle of Geneva, by…