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Book Review: Making Ubumwe: Power, State And Camps In Rwanda’S Unity-Building Projects, Claudine A. Kuradusenge-Mcleod
Book Review: Making Ubumwe: Power, State And Camps In Rwanda’S Unity-Building Projects, Claudine A. Kuradusenge-Mcleod
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Film Review: The Uncondemned, Jessica M. Adach
Film Review: The Uncondemned, Jessica M. Adach
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
Film Review of The Uncondemned
#Stopthismovie And The Pitfalls Of Mass Atrocity Prevention: Framing Of Violence And Anticipation Of Escalation In Burundi’S Crisis (2015-2017), Andrea Purdeková
#Stopthismovie And The Pitfalls Of Mass Atrocity Prevention: Framing Of Violence And Anticipation Of Escalation In Burundi’S Crisis (2015-2017), Andrea Purdeková
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
The ongoing Burundi crisis offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize the changing political economy of preventive framing of violence, and particularly genocide as a representational resource in prevention. The paper shows that labels and labeling practices are not disconnected from the local dynamics of conflict, and might have counterintuitive effects in this respect. The portrayal of Burundi’s crisis— the frequent intimations that the recent crisis can lead to genocide, the invocations of the ethnic frame, and the repeated comparisons with Rwanda and Burundi’s own past— has proceeded through a problematic analysis-by-analogy and has served to obscure the core drivers of …
Peace And Compromise, Idealism And Constraint: The Case Of The Arusha Peace Accords In Rwanda And Burundi, Jonathan R. Beloff, Samantha Lakin
Peace And Compromise, Idealism And Constraint: The Case Of The Arusha Peace Accords In Rwanda And Burundi, Jonathan R. Beloff, Samantha Lakin
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
Peace and stability have been core challenges in the Great Lakes Region of Africa since the years of independence from European nations. State building processes have been ridden by ongoing violence, characterized by two-sided or multi-party violence perpetrated by militias, national militaries, rogue groups, and even local civilians. The international system has prioritized peace accords and negotiation processes when parties in conflict decide to move past the violence, either required by external actors, or based on the instability of the situation on the ground. When warring parties and international actors sign peace accords to end conflict in an attempt to …
Book Review: Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide In Rwanda And Its Aftermath In Photography And Documentary Film, Scott Ahearn
Book Review: Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide In Rwanda And Its Aftermath In Photography And Documentary Film, Scott Ahearn
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
As Rwanda marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide this spring, Piotr Cieplak’s book, Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentation, is timely as an exploration of the documentary imagery developed since 1994 and its “uncomfortable coexistence with the genocide and its aftermath.” His book looks at still and video images from Westerners and Rwandans alike, and examines the ways in which these images succeed or fall short in bringing identity and remembrance to the victims of the genocide.