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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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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International Actors and Internal Conflicts [PDF]
, 1999 Surveys the recent literature relating to conflict and mediation activities, and presents a range of options available to states, international organizations, regional organizations, and NGOs seeking to mediate internal ...
Stephen John Stedman
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The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda: Why Proportional Representation Supports the Authoritarian Regime [PDF]
While much has been written about the special design of Rwanda’s judiciary in order to handle the aftermath of the genocide in 1994, other institutional actions resulting from the 2003 constitution have rarely been addressed in research.
Alexander Stroh
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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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Civil Society Participation in Rwanda’s Poverty Reduction Strategy [PDF]
The participation conditionality linked to the PRSP creates a wide range of problems. It is too ambitious to be workable, too vague to be monitored.
Molenaers, Nadia, Renard, Robrecht
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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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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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Agricultural Returns and Conflict: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Policy Intervention Programme in Rwanda [PDF]
In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re ...
Florence Kondylis
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Genocide and Land Scarcity: Can Rwandan Rural Households Manage? [PDF]
During the nineties, Rwandan households had to cope with severe shocks of war and genocide. In addition, two major structural problems in Rwanda, land scarcity and declining soil fertility, remain unsolved. How do Rwandan households manage?
Lode Berlage, Marijke Verpoorten
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