“Does the Truth Pass Across the Fire without Burning?” : Transitional Justice and its Discontents in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts [PDF]
The modernized tradition of the Gacaca courts has become the key mechanism to deal with the past in Rwanda. Due to the design of the Gacaca tribunals, truth telling is the cornerstone of the transitional justice framework.
Ingelaere, Bert
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A Perilous Path to Democracy. Political Transition and Authoritarian Consolidation in Rwanda [PDF]
The most influential literature on political transitions, the “transition paradigm”, conceived a normative theoretical framework based on the fundamental assumption that any country, which shifts away from authoritarianism is a country in transition to ...
Rafti, Marina
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“La nostra fratellanza nel dolore”: the Jewish Community of Rome and the ‘Other’ Genocides
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2016 This paper investigates how, if, and to what extent the Jewish Community of Rome interacts with the commemoration of other acts of genocide, mass killing, and ethnic cleansing.
Luca Peretti
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Agricultural Policy, Crop Failure and the 'Ruriganiza' Famine (1989) in Southern Rwanda: a Prelude to Genocide ? [PDF]
The paper analyses the agricultural policy of the Habyarimana regime, which ruled Rwanda from 1973 to 1994. Econometric analysis of rural household survey data is used to investigate the effects of the 1989 crop failure in southern Rwanda on children’s ...
Philip Verwimp
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Patterns of the Past: Determining Common Pre-Genocide Characteristic to Predict and Prevent Future Genocides [PDF]
, 2014 Certain warning signs of genocide – segregation, identification symbols, dehumanization, death lists, and executioners-in-training – existed in Nazi-controlled territories prior to the extermination of the Jews.
Nomina, Kayla
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Delaying Annihilation: Mountains and the Postponement of Massacre
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2019 This paper aims at conceptualizing the physical environment of genocidal violence. Perpetrator organizations are understood to use artificial and natural settings to facilitate the task of mass killing.
Jeff Stonehouse
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Measure for measure: how well do we measure micro-level conflict intensity?. [PDF]
Rich measures of micro-level violent conflict intensity are key for successfully providing insight into the legacy of civil war.Yet, the debate on how exactly conflict intensity should be measured has just started.
Verpoorten, Marijke
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Child Survival and the Fertility of Refugees in Rwanda after the Genocide [PDF]
In the 1960s and 1990s, internal strife in Rwanda has caused a mass flow of refugees into neighbouring countries. This paper explores the cumulated fertility of Rwandan refugee women and the survival of their children.
Jan Van Bavel, Philip Verwimp
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Conventional Wisdom And Rwanda’s Genocide: An Opinion
African Studies Quarterly, 1997 Certain thoughts about the Rwandan genocide of 1994 are commonly accepted. For the most part, these ideas have been used to explain the causes of the genocide and, by implication, propose solutions to Rwanda’s continuing problems.
Tony Waters
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Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda [PDF]
Civil war and genocide in the 1990-2000 period in Rwanda - a small, landlocked, densely populated country in Central Africa - have had differential economic impacts on the country’s provinces.
Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp
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