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The Shallow Graves of Rwanda

Author : Shaharyar M. Khan
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860646164
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Shallow Graves of Rwanda written by Shaharyar M. Khan and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the world community, and particularly the United Nations, deal with genocide? "The Shallow Graves of Rwanda" is an account of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Rwanda in the mid-1990s. Shaharyar M. Khan's tenure began in the immediate aftermath of the downing of President Habarimana's plane on 6 April 1994 and the massacres that followed. Khan details his encounters with the region's leading actors - Rwanda's soldiers and politicians, victims and survivors, as well as some of the perpetrators of the massacres. He also dealt with people involved in international relief and humanitarian relief efforts, trying to revive the stricken villages and towns and tackle the floods of refugees and orphaned children. Setting everyday events in Rwanda against the backdrop of international politics, this book reveals how the UN works on the ground and at headquarters and explores the problems of peacekeeping. The author backs up his conclusions on the phenomenon and nature of genocide with documentary evidence and shows how the lessons of Rwanda can provide valuable guidance for the future.

A Thousand Hills

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047073003X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Hills written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.

A History of Rwanda

Author : Klaus Bachmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000892905
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A History of Rwanda written by Klaus Bachmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides new insights and corrects many popular stereotypes about Rwanda, aiming to go beyond the polarized and heated debates focused on the genocide and the events that followed. Readers will get a clear and broad picture of Rwanda’s history and the social and political contexts that have defined the county from the pre-colonial period onwards. Embedding Rwanda’s history in the regional context, this book avoids simple moral judgements and instead shows where and when Rwanda differed from its neighbours and how the country’s history fits into larger debates about colonialism, genocide, ethnicity, race and development. Offering a full and balanced exploration of Rwanda’s rich and paradoxical history, this book will be an important read for researchers and students of African history, genocide studies, transitional justice, colonialism, and political and social anthropology.

Rwanda 1994

Author : Barrie Collins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137022329
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Rwanda 1994 written by Barrie Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a rigorous critique of the dominant narrative of the Rwandan genocide, Collins provides an alternative argument to the debate situating the killings within a historically-specific context and drawing out a dynamic interplay between national and international actors.

A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma

Author : Randall Fegley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149851944X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma written by Randall Fegley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few societies have faced the difficulties of identity building experienced by Rwanda. This book’s introduction reviews literature on the concepts of myth and trauma, and then introduces basic information on Rwanda and how it has been viewed by the outside world. Chapter One describes early Rwanda’s political and cultural development, traditional narratives, group migrations, the effects of German and later Belgian colonialism, and the introduction of Christianity. It concludes with a look at how this early history has been interpreted and reinterpreted. The second chapter discusses the end of Tutsi dominance and the 1959 Hutu Revolution. It details Hutu Power ideology, Belgian domestic politics, early acts of genocide, refugee movements, and economic and political stagnation. The text documents the development of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, its 1990 invasion, and the Arusha peace process. An account of the 1994 genocide follows. However, as this has been covered in numerous other works, descriptions are limited to key events and general patterns. The chapter ends with a review of films, books, and other publications that brought Rwanda’s plight to a worldwide audience, but that also created new myths. Chapter Three examines the country’s post-genocide reconstruction and attempts to bring justice and reconciliation through the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania and gacaca courts domestically. Rwanda’s impressive record of economic progress over the last two decades is detailed. However, prospects for democracy have diminished, as its leaders have become increasingly sensitive to criticism and fearful of renewed divisions. Descriptions of the process of developing school curriculums to explain past atrocities, the new myths it created, and their possible consequences comprise most of Chapter Four. The final chapter offers conclusions on the effects of past mythologies and the trauma they have wrought. It draws comparisons with other divided societies and their approaches to dealing with the past. These include Burundi, Ethiopia, South Africa, the United States, Taiwan, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and Singapore. An extensive bibliography of books, theses, conference papers, official documents, articles, periodicals, journals, films, websites, other media, and interviews includes translations of titles in Kinyarwanda, French, Dutch, and German.

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda

Author : Omar Shahabudin McDoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491464
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Path to Genocide in Rwanda written by Omar Shahabudin McDoom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it.

In the Aftermath of Genocide

Author : Robert E. Gribbin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595344119
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book In the Aftermath of Genocide written by Robert E. Gribbin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. Role in Rwanda deepens understanding of the violence--the Rwandan genocide and the Congolese war--that engulfed Central Africa in the midnineties, and America's policy response to the crises. Author Robert E. Gribbin draws on his thirty years of diplomatic experience in the region to analyze U.S. perceptions of Rwanda in the years before the genocide and to recount the unfolding of the terrible event itself. Most important, he describes what happened afterwards--how the new government and people of Rwanda, together with their international partners, confronted devastation, picked up the pieces, and began to forge a new nation. They had to reestablish viable government, deliver justice to those guilty of genocide, repatriate over a million refugees, and confront an insurgency at home and a war in the Congo. In the Aftermath of Genocide is an insider's account of these crucial events. It recounts what the U.S. government knew, or did not know, and what it did, or did not do, about them.

Africa and the Americas [3 volumes]

Author : Richard M. Juang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094466
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Americas [3 volumes] written by Richard M. Juang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia explores the many long-standing influences of Africa and people of African descent on the culture of the Americas, while tracing the many ways in which the Americas remain closely interconnected with Africa. Ranging from the 15th century to the present, Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History explores the many ways Africa and African peoples have shaped the cultural life of the Americas—and how, in turn, life in the Americas reverberates in Africa. This groundbreaking three-volume encyclopedia offers hundreds of alphabetically organized entries on African history, nations, and peoples plus African-influenced aspects of life in the Americas. It also features authoritative introductory essays on history, culture and religion, demography, international relations, economics and trade, and arts and literature. In doing so, it traces the complex and continuous movement of peoples of African descent to the West, the mechanics and lingering effects of colonialism and the slave trade, and the crucial issues of cultural retention and adaptation that are essential to our understanding of the effects of globalization.

Conspiracy to Murder

Author : Linda Melvern
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602157
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy to Murder written by Linda Melvern and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved amounts to a catalogue of failures that only serves to sharpen the horror of a tragedy that could have been avoided.

The Modern World

Author : Sarolta Takacs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745572X
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Modern World written by Sarolta Takacs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to meet the curriculum needs for students from grades 7 to 12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores world history from approximately 5000 C.E. to the present. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the modern world.Each volume includes articles on history, government, and warfare; the development of ideas and the growth of art and architecture; religion and philosophy; music; science and technology; and daily life in the civilizations covered. Boxed features include "Turning Point," "Great Lives," "Into the Twenty-First Century," and "Modern Weapons". Maps, timelines, and illustrations illuminate the text, and a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index in each volume round out the set.

Journey Into Darkness

Author : Thomas P. Odom
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446133
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Journey Into Darkness written by Thomas P. Odom and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1994, Thomas P. Odom was part of the U.S. Embassy team that responded to the Goma refugee crisis. He witnessed the deaths of 70,000 refugees in a single week. In the previous three months of escalating violence, the Rwandan genocide had claimed 800,000 dead. Now, in this vivid and unsettling new book, Odom offers the first insider look at these devastating events before, during, and after the genocide. Odom draws on his years of experience as a Defense Attach? and foreign area specialist in the United States Army to offer a complete picture of the situation in Zaire and Rwanda, focusing on two U.S. embassies, intelligence operations, U.N. peacekeeping efforts, and regional reactions. His team attempted to slow the death by cholera of refugees in Goma, guiding in a U.S. Joint Task Force and Operation Support Hope and remaining until the United States withdrew its forces forty days later. After U.S. forces departed, Odom crossed into Rwanda to spend the next eighteen months reestablishing the embassy, working with the Rwandan government, and creating the U.S.-Rwandan Demining office. Odom assisted the U.S. Ambassador and served as the principal military advisor on Rwanda to the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security Council throughout his time in Rwanda. His book candidly reveals Odom?s frustration with Washington as his predictions that a larger war was coming were ignored. Unfortunately, he was proven correct: the current death toll in that unfortunate country is close to three million. Odom?s account of the events in Rwanda illustrate not only illustrate how failures in intelligence and policy happen, but also show that a human context is necessary to comprehend these political decisions.

Why Comrades Go to War

Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190864559
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Why Comrades Go to War written by Philip Roessler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1996, a group of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara to Luanda, the rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500 kilometers inseven months to crush the dictatorship. To the Congolese rebels and their Pan-Africanist allies, the vanquishing of the Mobutu regime represented nothing short of a "second independence" for Congo and Central Africa as a whole and the dawning of a new regional order of peace and security. Within fifteen months, however, Central Africa's "liberation peace" would collapse, triggering a cataclysmic fratricide between the heroes of the war against Mobutu and igniting the deadliest conflict since World War II. This book gives an account Africa's Great War. It argues that the seeds of Africa's Great War were sown in the revolutionary struggle against Mobutu- the way the revolution came together, the way it was organized, and, paradoxically, the very way it succeeded. In particular, the book argues that the overthrow of Mobutu proved a Pyrrhic victory because the protagonists ignored the philosophy of Julius Nyerere, the father of Africa's liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures necessary to consolidate peace after revolution.

Liberalism and War

Author : Andrew Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136008063
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and War written by Andrew Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military power is now the main vehicle for regime change. The US army has been used on more than 30 different occasions in the post-Cold War world compared with just 10 during the whole of the Cold War era. Leading scholar Andrew Williams tackles contemporary thinking on war with a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, using a vast range of historical archival material from diplomatic, other official and personal papers, which this study situates within the debates that have emerged in political theory. He examines the main strategies used at the end, and in the aftermath, of wars by liberal states to consolidate their liberal gains and to prevent the re-occurrence of wars with those states they have fought. This new study also explores how various strategies: revenge; restitution; reparation; restraint; retribution; reconciliation; and reconstruction, have been used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also transform them. This is a major new contribution to contemporary thinking and action. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and security studies.

Apologia Politica

Author : Girma Negash
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073915205X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Apologia Politica written by Girma Negash and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apologia Politica defines and explores the nature of public apology, or what Nicholas Tavuchis calls 'an apology from the many to the many.' Focusing on collectivities and their agencies in the apology process, author Girma Negash examines public apology as ethical and public discourse, recommends criteria for the apology process, analyzes historical and contemporary cases, and formulates a guide to ethical conduct in public apologies.

Philosophy, Religion and Politics: Essays in Honour of Very Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu

Author : Alloy S Ihuah PhD
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300019662
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Religion and Politics: Essays in Honour of Very Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu written by Alloy S Ihuah PhD and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of critical essays in the areas of Philosophy, Religion and Politics in the continent of Africa in honour the Very Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu, a pastor, Politician and twenty-first century Existentialist in the category of the encyclopaedic Gabriel Marcel. The book underscore the very important issue of the politics of regionalism as it interfaces nationalism. The question of religious beliscosity and ethnic identity are critically examined as some of the very serious problems in the way of political integration and unity in Africa. Ambitious and carefully-argued, the book speaks to students and scholars in disciplines other than Philosophy, Religion and Political Science. It is a necessary policy companion for policy makers and the general reader. The book deals with many other aspects of the most fundamental problems of human existence.

Global Security in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Sean Kay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442206152
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Global Security in the Twenty-first Century written by Sean Kay and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Global Security in the Twenty-first Century offers a thoroughly updated and balanced introduction to contemporary security studies. Sean Kay examines the relationship between globalization and international security and places traditional quests for power and national security in the context of the ongoing search for peace. Sean Kay explores a range of security challenges, including fresh analysis of the implications of the global economic crisis and current flashpoints for international security trends. Writing in an engaging style, Kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global security.

Eyewitness to a Genocide

Author : Michael Barnett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465125
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness to a Genocide written by Michael Barnett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide. Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.