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The dynamics of violence in central africa /

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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Main Authors: Lemarchand, Ren
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2009]
©2009
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century
Subjects:
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Genocide > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Geopolitics > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Political violence > Great Lakes Region (Africa)
Economic history.
Genocide.
Geopolitics.
Geschichte Afrikas.
Political violence.
Politics and Government.
Social Policy, Social Work, Development Aid.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812202595
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 10 illus.
ISBN: 9780812202595
Index Number: DT352
CLC: D740.2
Contents: 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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