Political Governance In Post Genocide Rwanda

Author : Filip Reyntjens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107471450

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Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Filip Reyntjens Pdf

Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and perpetuate its position as the nation's ruling party. Although many international observers have hailed Rwanda as a 'success story' for its technocratic governance, societal reforms, and economic development, Reyntjens complicates this picture by casting light on the regime's human rights abuses, social engineering projects, information management schemes, and retributive justice system.

Author : Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317094937

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Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Pdf

Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their supporters - has been to further gender equality and equity in Rwanda. This study details which political processes could be engendered. It further illustrates why certain gender norms were adopted and adapted, whereas others were not. The study addresses issues of global governance in gender politics through such international frameworks as CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as Resolution 1325. These instruments have been brought forth by a transnational women’s movement to benefit women and women’s rights across the globe. It shows how these gender norms were introduced, adapted and contested locally at a crucial time of the transformation process underway. Concerned with the interplay of domestic and international politics, it also alludes to the unique circumstances in Rwanda that have led to unprecedented levels of women’s political representation. Which tools have been the most significant in women’s mobilisation and how these relate to precedents set within international relations is of interest to a wide community of scholars and policy-makers alike.

Author : Timothy Longman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107678095

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Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Timothy Longman Pdf

A critical exploration of the steps taken to promote peace, reconciliation and justice in post-genocide Rwanda.

Author : Jonathan R. Beloff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000094558

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Foreign Policy in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Jonathan R. Beloff Pdf

This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book examines the intersubjective beliefs that formulate how Rwanda engages with the international community. The book presents and analyses three primary intersubjective themes: historical and possible future abandonment of Rwanda; implementing an ideology of agaciro to promote self-respect, dignity and self-reliance for state security and economic development; and the belief in the government’s obligation to promote human security for those who identify as ‘Rwandan’. These perceptions help us understand how post-genocide Rwanda engages with the international community in the pursuit of state security, economic development and to prevent a future genocide. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics and international relations as well as the politics of post-genocide states.

Author : Scott Straus,Lars Waldorf
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299282639

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Remaking Rwanda by Scott Straus,Lars Waldorf Pdf

In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Author : Patrick Noack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137265159

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Rwanda Fast Forward by Patrick Noack Pdf

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achievements and uncertainties in terms of national unity, institutional leadership, the spectre of industrial policy and economic development,perceptions of civil society engagement, etc.

Author : Lewis Boyce
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542517966

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Rwanda Political History, and Crises by Lewis Boyce Pdf

Rwanda Political History, and Crises. Rwanda Genocide. Rwanda Economy, Rwanda government A History Book on Rwanda More than 20 years after the genocide, Rwanda has become one of the most repressive countries in Africa, continuing its antidemocratic trajectory as the government works to close civic space in the run up to the contentious 2017 elections. Despite these conditions, Rwanda is perceived as a "stabilizing" factor in an increasingly volatile region, causing many to fear that its deteriorating human rights record will be overlooked. David Himbara is the United States and Canada coordinator for Democracy in Rwanda Now and recently testified before Congress on the worsening human rights situation in Rwanda. He spent six years working for President Paul Kagame, most notably as chairman of the Rwanda Development Board, where he was instrumental in spurring Rwanda's economic development. After recognizing the increasingly violent nature of the Kagame regime, Himbara fled to South Africa in January 2010, where he was subjected to harassment and threats. He was eventually forced to flee to Canada in 2013.

Author : Uma Shankar Jha,S. N. Yadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119802226

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Rwanda by Uma Shankar Jha,S. N. Yadav Pdf

Author : Erin Jessee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Susan E. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351517775

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Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda by Susan E. Cook Pdf

This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide. Although the "story" of the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and that of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 have been written about in detail, most have focused on how the genocides took place, what the ideas and motives were that led extremist factions to attempt to kill whole sections of their country's population, and who their victims were. This volume builds on our understanding of genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda by bringing new issues, sources, and approaches into focus. The chapters in this book are grouped so that a single theme is explored in both the Cambodian and Rwandan contexts; their ordering is designed to facilitate comparative analysis. The first three chapters emphasize the importance of political discourse in the genocidal process. Chapters 4 and 5 examine social institutions and explore their role in the genocidal process. Chapters 6 and 7 describe the military trajectories of the genocidal regimes in Cambodia and Rwanda after their overthrow, showing that genocide and genocidal intents as a political program do not cease the moment the massacres subside. The final chapters deal with private and public efforts to memorialize the genocides in the months and years following the killing. Drawing on ten years of genocide studies at Yale, this excellent anthology assembles high-quality new research from a variety of continents, disciplines, and languages. It will be an important addition to ongoing research on genocide.

Author : André Guichaoua
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299298203

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From War to Genocide by André Guichaoua Pdf

A definitive account and analysis of the evolving genocidal violence in Rwanda in 1994, and of the judicial, political, and diplomatic responses to it.

Author : Allan Thompson
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745326252

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The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson Pdf

Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.

Author : Elisabeth King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107039339

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From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda by Elisabeth King Pdf

Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, this book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace.

Author : Susan Thomson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299296735

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Whispering Truth to Power by Susan Thomson Pdf

For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting "one Rwanda for all Rwandans." Examining how ordinary rural Rwandans experience and view these policies, Whispering Truth to Power challenges the conventional wisdom on postgenocide Rwanda. Susan Thomson finds that many of Rwanda's poorest citizens distrust the local officials charged with implementing the state program and believe that it ignores the deepest problems of the countryside: lack of land, jobs, and a voice in policies that affect lives and livelihoods. Based on interviews with dozens of Rwandan peasants and government officials, this book reveals how the nation's disenfranchised poor have been engaging in everyday resistance, cautiously and carefully—"whispering" their truth to the powers that be. This quiet opposition, Thomson argues, suggests that some of the nation's most celebrated postgenocide policies have failed to garner the grassroots support needed to sustain peace. “Reveals the lengths [to which] the current government has gone to restructure all spaces of Rwandan society, and how Rwandans continue to resist this state interference in their everyday lives.”—Ethnic and Racial Studies “Thomson’s elegant research is praiseworthy and her arguments are forthright. . . . This important publication will be of great value to scholars of Rwanda and genocide as well as students of reconciliation politics and transitional justice.”—Human Rights Quarterly “Sobering and disturbing. . . . The peasant peoples’ resistance to official policies of national unity and reconciliation emerged because these national schemes do not reflect the peasants’ own lived realities and experiences of state power, genocide, and day-to-day living within their communities. Instead, these official policies disrupt everyday life and endanger existing networks of mutual support and dependence.”—Canadian Journal of Development Studies Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Author : Yusuke Takagi,Veerayooth Kanchoochat,Tetsushi Sonobe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811329043

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Developmental State Building by Yusuke Takagi,Veerayooth Kanchoochat,Tetsushi Sonobe Pdf

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude toward economic development and industrialization. Emerging states have engaged in the promotion of agriculture, trade, and industry and played a transformative role to pursue a certain path of economic development. Their success has cast doubt about the principle of laissez faire among the people in the developing world. This doubt, together with the progress of democratization, has prompted policymakers to discover when and how economic policies should deviate from laissez faire, what prevents political leaders and state institutions from being captured by vested interests, and what induce them to drive economic development. This book offers both historical and contemporary case studies from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. They illustrate how institutions are designed to be developmental, how political coalitions are formed to be growth-oriented, and how technocratic agencies are embedded in a network of business organizations as a part of their efforts for state building.