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Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
wiley   +1 more source

After Arusha: Gacaca Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2004
The epicentre of post-genocide Rwandan society and politics has been the need for reconciliation to assuage ethnic tensions and end a culture of impunity. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has yet to meet its goal of reconciliation in
Alana Erin Tiemessen
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Does Valuing Free Speech Affect Norms of Tolerance? Evidence From Individual Preferences

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 806-827, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying global debates over balancing free speech with protections against hate speech, this paper investigates whether individuals who value free speech exhibit greater racial tolerance. Unlike prior studies focusing on the institutional effects of free speech, this paper examines whether individuals who prioritize free speech hold ...
Claudia Williamson Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
wiley   +1 more source

“There Was No Genocide in Rwanda”

open access: yesConflict and Society, 2015
This article analyzes how the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is recalled and described by members of a Hutu rebel group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) whose leadership can be linked to the 1994 atrocities in Rwanda. The article explores how individuals belonging to this rebel group, currently operating in the eastern territories of
openaire   +1 more source

Displacement as a Cultural Repertoire for Resilience in Chronic Crisis, in Burundi

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Prior to a new outbreak of violence in Burundi in 2015, more than 10000 Burundians had already crossed borders in search of refuge. The anticipatory displacement signalled the need to rethink displacement as contextualised in the country's long history of conflict and decline.
Lidewyde H. Berckmoes
wiley   +1 more source

“We are the memory representation of our parents”: Intergenerational legacies of genocide among descendants of rape survivors in Rwanda

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Introduction: The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda subjected thousands of women to rape as part of a range of other genocidal atrocities. This article explores what it means in everyday life to be a descendant of such mothers.
Marie Grâce Kagoyire, Annemiek Richters
doaj   +1 more source

The U.N. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Concludes its First Case: A Monumental Step Towards Truth

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 1998
Over the past year, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has made significant progress in apprehending and prosecuting high ranking persons responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda1.
Paul J. Magnarella
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 599-611, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marital conflict in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: an explorative study within the context of community based sociotherapy

open access: yesIntervention Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas, 2018
This article explores the ongoing impact of the genocide in Rwanda on marital relationships. Its specific focus are genocide related factors that generate relational trauma and the consequences of this trauma for the everyday lives of spouses affected by
Emmanuel Sarabwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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