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In her years of studying the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira has helped increase our understanding of how ordinary people can be coaxed into committing atrocities and how human resilience after genocide helps shape a nation’s future.
3 lis 2020 · This chapter breaks Rwanda’s highly contested peacebuilding into four main parts—military, society, economy, and youth & women—to put some distance between its tangible gains and failings, on one hand, and the presumed aims and personality of President Paul Kagame, on the other.
Drawing on Rwanda’s experience with national reconciliation, the following lessons could be useful for countries that have experienced massive violent conflicts. Firstly, it is the state’s responsibility to set the stage and to promote reconciliation. Secondly, successful reconciliation necessitates integrated
I love teaching and teach classes on global crime, violence, and qualitative methods. I also created and lead a study abroad class called Genocide and Its Aftermath in Rwanda.
This article argues that on the borderland between eastern DRC and Rwanda, the past and its representations have been constantly manipulated. The cataclysmic events in both Rwanda and Congo since the 1990s have widened the gap between partial and politicized historical discourse and careful historical analysis.
“A timely and important analysis of an under-studied aspect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. . . . Offering rich insights and original thinking based on voluminous primary research, Fox's book is to be highly commended for addressing a critical area on contemporary Rwanda. . . . An exceptionally worthwhile read.” —H-Net Reviews
Government-instigated mob violence had killed thousands more Tutsi. Since the genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR)-the new power in Kigali, largely controlled by a small group of Ugandan-born Tutsi-is said to. have killed tens of thousands of primarily Hutu people. The violence is partly.
