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The Order of Genocide : Race, Power, and War in Rwanda /

Challenging prevailing studies of the Rwandan genocide, the author provides evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research - including comprehensive surveys undertaken among convicted perpetrators - to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Exist...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Straus, Scott, 1970-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Background to the genocide
  • 2. Genocide at the national and regional levels
  • 3. Local dynamics
  • 4. The genocidaires
  • 5. Why perpetrators say they committed genocide
  • 6. The logic of genocide
  • 7. Historical patterns of violence
  • 8. Rwanda's Leviathan
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Index.