
The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective
Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore
- 322 pages
- English
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The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective
Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore
About this book
This book combines social science concepts, history and transitional justice studies to examine the social dynamics, specific actors and ideologies involved in the genocide in Rwanda and examines what makes this genocide a unique case of mass violence and political transition compared with other cases of mass violence.
It analyzes the conditions necessary for people to engage in intimate violence against their neighbors and family members, asking what inclines "ordinary men" (and women) to join gangs of killers and what role policies, authorities, ideologies, emotions, negotiations and material incentives play in the mobilization for mass atrocities. Comparing genocidal events elsewhere in time and location, the book provides an up-to-date overview of the 1994 events in Rwanda and offers new and surprising insights from previously inaccessible archival records, explaining how to facilitate foreign intervention in the future.
This book is of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, genocide studies and more broadly to security studies, conflicts and conflict-resolution studies, decolonization studies and contemporary and comparative history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: the puzzles of mass violence
- 1 From the monarchy to the end of the Second Republic
- 2 The root causes of mass violence
- 3 Genocide in Rwanda
- 4 A preventable genocide?
- 5 After mass violence
- 6 The genocide spills over
- 7 Coping with mass violence
- Conclusion: the genocide in Rwanda in a comparative perspective
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index