The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lemarchand, Rene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Political violence.
Politics and government
Geopolitics.
Genocide.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Geopolitique > Grands Lacs, Region des (Afrique)
Violence politique > Grands Lacs, Region des (Afrique)
Genocide > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Geopolitics > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Political violence > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Africa > Great Lakes Region.
Central Africa.
Afrique centrale > Relations interethniques > Aspect politique.
Afrique centrale > Conditions economiques > 1960-
Afrique centrale > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Africa, Central > Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Africa, Central > Economic conditions > 1960-
Africa, Central > Politics and government > 1960-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: The Geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region
  • Chapter 2: The Road to Hell
  • Chapter 3: Ethnicity as Myth
  • Chapter 4: Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide?
  • Chapter 5: The Rationality of Genocide
  • Chapter 6: Hate Crimes
  • Chapter 7: The Politics of Memory
  • Chapter 8: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered
  • Chapter 9: Burundi 1972: A Forgotten Genocide
  • Chapter 10: Burundi at the Crossroads
  • Chapter 11: Burundi's Endangered Transition
  • Map 5
  • Chapter 12: A Blocked Transition: Zaire in 1993
  • Chapter 13: Ethnic Violence, Public Policies, and Social Capital in North Kivu
  • Chapter 14: The DRC: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction
  • Chapter 15: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
  • Chapter 16: From Kabila to Kabila: What Else Is New?
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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