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Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and perpetuate its position as the nation's ruling party. Although many international observers have hailed Rwanda as a 'success story' for its technocratic governance, societal reforms, and economic development, Reyntjens complicates this picture by casting light on the regime's human rights abuses, social engineering projects, information management schemes, and retributive justice system.
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Political governance in post-genocide Rwanda
Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front.
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Remaking Rwanda
In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise.
Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf,
Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
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Genocide never sleeps : living law at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda
\"Between 7 April and mid-July 1994 an estimated 937,000 Rwandans (according to a 2001 census the vast majority of whom were Tutsi), were murdered in massacres committed by militia, the gendarmerie and elements of the army, often with the participation of the local population (see Des Forges, 1999; Eltringham, 2004; IRIN, 2001)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stuck
Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world's youth.
Spotlighting failed masculinity, urban desperation, and forceful governance, Marc Sommers tells the dramatic story of young Rwandans who are \"stuck,\" striving against near-impossible odds to become adults. In Rwandan culture, female youth must wait, often in vain, for male youth to build a house before they can marry. Only then can male and female youth gain acceptance as adults. However, Rwanda's severe housing crisis means that most male youth are on a treadmill toward failure, unable to build their house yet having no choice but to try. What follows is too often tragic. Rural youth face a future as failed adults, while many who migrate to the capital fail to secure a stable life and turn fatalistic about contracting HIV/AIDS.
Featuring insightful interviews with youth, adults, and government officials,Stucktells the story of an ambitious, controlling government trying to govern an exceptionally young and poor population in a densely populated and rapidly urbanizing country. This pioneering book sheds new light on the struggle to come of age and suggests new pathways toward the attainment of security, development, and coexistence in Africa and beyond.
Published in association with the United States Institute of Peace
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Why Genocide Survivors Want Gacaca Law Revised
\"IBUKA, an umbrella organization of Genocide survivors' associations, has poked holes in article 9 of the Gacaca law precisely on the clause on judgements pronounced by Gacaca Courts while offenders were out of the country, and now wants this particular clause amended to avoid legal gaps contributing to impunity. The article in question is contained in the Organic Law terminating Gacaca Courts and determining mechanisms for solving issues which were under their jurisdiction, as enacted in 2012.\" (AllAfrica.com) This article describes how the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide are avoiding justice, leading genocide survivors to call for amendments to the Gacaca law.
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Explaining the West's Love Affair with Rwanda
\"Enforced disappearances, no political opposition and a longtime president who tolerates no dissent. So why are Western democracies so bent on doing business with Rwanda?\" (AllAfrica.com) In this viewpoint article, the author examines the \"conflicted\" U.S. foreign policy with Rwanda, a country whose human rights record is \"ignored\" by the West.
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Rwandan Tin Smelting Firm Certified As Conflict Free
\"A Rwandan tin smelting plant, LuNa Smelter, has been certified as a conflict free smelter by the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP). The qualification is part of a programme, Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), which has been conducting assessment to validate smelters' company-level management processes for responsible mineral procurement.\" (AllAfrica.com) This article discusses the development, which is a part of a 7-year plan to transform Rwanda's mining industry while increasing revenues and sustainability.
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Rwanda's genocide : the politics of global justice
In Rwanda's Genocide, Kingsley Moghalu provides an engrossing account and analysis of the international political brinkmanship embedded in the quest for international justice for Rwanda's genocide. He takes us behind the scenes to the political and strategic factors that shaped a path-breaking war crimes tribunal and demonstrates why the trials at Arusha, like Nuremberg, Tokyo, and the Hague, are more than just prosecutions of culprits, but also politics by other means. This is the first serious book on the politics of justice for Rwanda's genocide. Moghalu tells this gripping story with the authority of an insider, elegant and engaging writing, and intellectual mastery of the subject matter.
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