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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
René Lemarchand |
ISBN: | 9780812241204 0812241207 9780812220902 0812220900 |
OCLC Number: | 227327648 |
Description: | xv, 327 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The regional context. The geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region ; The road to Hell -- Rwanda and Burundi: the genocidal twins. Comparative perspectives. Ethnicity as myth ; Genocide in the Great Lakes: which genocide? Whose genocide? ; Rwanda. The rationality of genocide ; Hate crimes ; The politics of memory ; Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered ; Burundi. Burundi 1972: a forgotten genocide ; Burundi at the crossroads ; Burundi's endangered transition -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo: from failed state to fragile transition. A blocked transition: Zaire in 1993 ; Ethnic violence, public policies, and social capital in North Kivu ; The DRC: from failure to potential reconstruction ; The tunnel at the end of the light ; From Kabila to Kabila: what else is new? |
Series Title: | National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century. |
Responsibility: | René Lemarchand. |
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Abstract:
This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent.
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"Rene Lemarchand ranks among the top Africanist political scientists of his generation, unmatched in his depth of knowledge about the African Great Lakes. He brings to The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa a broad comparative perspective as well as decades of close observation of the political evolution of the Great Lakes region."-M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison Read more...

