Negotiating Genocide In Rwanda

Author : Erin Jessee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319451954

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Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda by Erin Jessee Pdf

This book is an oral history-based study of the politics of history in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives have been intimately affected by genocide into conversation with scholarly studies of the Rwandan genocide, and Rwandan history more generally. In doing so, she explores the following questions: How do Rwandans use history to make sense of their experiences of genocide and related mass atrocities? And to what end? In the aftermath of such violence, how do people’s interpretations of the varied forms of suffering they endured then influence their ability to envision and support a peaceful future for their nation that includes multi-ethnic cooperation?

Author : Zoe Lowery,Frank Spalding
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477785713

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The Rwandan Genocide by Zoe Lowery,Frank Spalding Pdf

In Rwanda, a small but populous country in Africa, a ghastly genocide started on April 6, 1994. Although it lasted only one hundred days, almost a million people were slaughtered by its end. This illuminating resource reviews one of the most horrible genocides in history, explaining the definition of genocide itself. Readers will learn about Rwanda's history, with a focus on the events that led to those terrible days. The book is rounded out with a brief look at post-genocide Rwanda, as the country copes and the people take back their lives after such a terrible tragedy.

Author : A. Walter Dorn,Jonathan Matloff,Jennifer Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : LCCN:2003619180

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Preventing the Bloodbath by A. Walter Dorn,Jonathan Matloff,Jennifer Matthews Pdf

Author : Linda Melvern
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783602704

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A People Betrayed by Linda Melvern Pdf

Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to respond. In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what happened. She holds governments to account, showing how individuals could have prevented what was happening and didn't do so. The book also reveals the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide, volunteer peacekeepers and those who ran emergency medical care. Fifteen years on, this new edition examines the ongoing impact of the 1948 Genocide Convention and the shock waves Rwanda caused around the world. Based on fresh interviews with key players and newly-released documents, A People Betrayed is a shocking indictment of the way Rwanda is and was forgotten and how today it is remembered in the West.

Author : Astri Suhrke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351477666

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The Path of a Genocide by Astri Suhrke Pdf

The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.

Author : Joyce E. Leader
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640123250

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From Hope to Horror by Joyce E. Leader Pdf

As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide—a period of political wrangling, human rights abuses, and many levels of ominous, ever-escalating violence. From Hope to Horror offers her insider’s account of the nation’s efforts to move toward democracy and peace and analyzes the challenges of conducting diplomacy in settings prone to—or engaged in—armed conflict. Leader traces the three-way struggle for control among Rwanda’s ethnic and regional factions. Each sought to shape democratization and peacemaking to its own advantage. The United States, hoping to encourage a peaceful transition, midwifed negotiations toward an accord. The result: a revolutionary blueprint for political and military power-sharing among Rwanda’s competing factions that met categorical rejection by the “losers” and a downward spiral into mass atrocities. Drawing on the Rwandan experience, Leader proposes ways diplomacy can more effectively avert the escalation of violence by identifying the unintended consequences of policies and emphasizing conflict prevention over crisis response. Compelling and expert, From Hope to Horror fills in the forgotten history of the diplomats who tried but failed to prevent a human rights catastrophe.

Author : Paul J Magnarella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351790581

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Justice in Africa by Paul J Magnarella Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This work describes the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - the first international court created to try persons for genocide and violation the humanitarian law of non-international armed conflict. The book begins with an explanation of the causes of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It then discusses the UN Security Council's creation of the ICTR and the Tribunal's organization, functioning, accomplishments and shortcomings. The author explains how the Tribunal has gained custody over suspects who had fled to other countries in Africa, Europe and also to the USA. The book analyzes the ICTR's first several cases and describes the unique contributions the Tribunal is making to the expansion of humanitarian law. In addition, the author describes Rwanda's own legal attempts to deal with the trauma of 1994 by passing a new genocide statute and creating special genocide courts. He also explains the similiarities and differences between the Tribunal for Rwanda and the one created by the UN Security Council to deal with major crimes committed during the break-up of former Yugoslavia.

Author : David Rawson
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821446508

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Prelude to Genocide by David Rawson Pdf

As the initial US observer, David Rawson participated in the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha, Tanzania. Later, he served as US ambassador to Rwanda during the last months of the doomed effort to make them hold. Despite the intervention of concerned states in establishing a peace process and the presence of an international mission, UNAMIR, the promise of the Arusha Peace Accords could not be realized. Instead, the downing of Rwandan president Habyarimana’s plane in April 1994 rekindled the civil war and opened the door to genocide. In Prelude to Genocide, Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences to seek out what went wrong. How did the course of political negotiations in Arusha and party wrangling in Kigali, Rwanda, bring to naught a concentrated international effort to establish peace? And what lessons are there for other international humanitarian interventions? The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis that is a milestone read on the Rwandan crisis and on what happens when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short. Published in partnership with the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004430129

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Rwanda Revisited by Anonim Pdf

Written by people selected for their personalized knowledge of the Rwandan genocide, Rwanda Revisited: Genocide, Civil War, and the Transformation of International Law provides a unique level of insight, detail and first-hand knowledge about the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.

Author : Frederik Grünfeld,Anke Huijboom
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004157811

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The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda by Frederik Grünfeld,Anke Huijboom Pdf

This volume is about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York. The communications and the decisionmaking are scrutinized, i.e., who received what messages at what time, to whom the messages were forwarded and which (non-) decisions were taken in response to the alarming reports of weapon deliveries and atrocities. This book makes clear that this genocide could have been prevented. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : John A. Berry,Carol Pott Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047518108

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Genocide in Rwanda by John A. Berry,Carol Pott Berry Pdf

Addresses the history and nature of the genocide in Rwanda that took place in 1994. Discusses the factors that led to the genocide and touches on the implications of the genocide. Also provides witness testimonies and historical and political perspectives. Includes a chronology, a list of acronyms, and a glossary of foreign terms.

Author : Giorgia Donà
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317557142

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The Marginalised in Genocide Narratives by Giorgia Donà Pdf

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over 20years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide’s social history. Examining a range of marginal stories and using Rwanda as a case study, The Marginalised in Genocide Narratives’ analysis of the transformation of genocide into a powerful narrative of a nation establishes an innovative means of understanding the lived spaces of violence and its enduring legacy. In a distinctive approach to the social history of genocide, this book engages with the marginalised; foregrounds genocide’s untold stories; and uses the conceptual framework of the constellation of genocide narratives to create connections among multiple social actors and identify narrative themes that address the unequal power and interdependence of narratives. Adopting a multi-level narrative methodology that addresses the value of multiple narrative framings for understanding genocides, The Marginalised in Genocide Narratives will appeal to students and researchers interested in sociology, conflict and peace studies, history, African studies and narrative research. It may also appeal to policy-makers interested in genocide studies and contemporary social history.

Author : Gérard Prunier
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1850653720

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The Rwanda Crisis by Gérard Prunier Pdf

Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier probes into how the genocidal events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic - a plan that served central political and economic interests - rather than a result of primordial tribal hatreds, a notion often invoked by the media to dramatize genocide.

Author : Edward L. Nyankanzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047096550

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Genocide by Edward L. Nyankanzi Pdf

3. The Congo Rebellion

Author : Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043096984

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"Leave None to Tell the Story" by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

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