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The dynamics of violence in central Africa / René Lemarchand

Publication | Library Call Number: DT352.8 .L46 2009
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The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa provides a thorough exploration of the contemporary crises in the region. By focusing on the historical and social forces behind the cycles of bloodshed in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, René Lemarchand challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the roots of civil strife in former Belgian Africa. --from publisher description.

Series
National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century
National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century.
Format
Book
Author/Creator
Lemarchand, René.
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-311) and index
Language
English
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Physical Description
xv, 327 p. : 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?
ISBN
9780812241204
0812241207 (alk. paper)
9780812220902 (alk. paper)
0812220900 (alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-311) and index.

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