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Messages of Hope: Using Positive Stories of Survival to Assist Recovery in Rwanda

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2014
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified ...
Girish Lala, Craig McGarty, Emma F. Thomas, Angela Ebert, Mick Broderick, Martin Mhando, Yves Kamuronsi   +6 more
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Writing ‘Parrhesia’, Narrating ‘the Other Rwandan Genocide’

, 2016
At the end of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, close to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus had been murdered, and over 1.5 million people were either internally displaced or had fled over the borders into neighbouring countries and beyond for fear of ...
Nick Mdika Tembo
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in
Kati Schindler, Tilman Brück
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Research on the Effect of Rwanda Gender Quotas on Political Representation and Optimizing Strategy [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
This essay examines the effect of Rwanda's gender quotas on political representation, especially in the Rwandan government, and proposes a few optimizing strategies for it to develop. Rwanda is a developing and post-genocide country in Sub-Saharan Africa,
Fan Ho Sio
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A study of the duty to prevent genocide in the context of international law [PDF]

, 2007
This thesis will attempt to uncover what the law surrounding the prevention of genocide amounts to. The provisions of Genocide Convention and duties under customary law will be examined in detail.
Tweedy, Laura Elizabeth
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The Rwandan Genocide

, 2005
Genocide at the Millennium is the fifth volume in the series Genocide: A Critical Bibliographical Review, three of which were published by Transaction. Its focus is both the genocidal activity that has taken place over the past fourteen years (including ...
Adelman, Howard
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Political Imagination and the Crime of Crimes: Coming to Terms with "Genocide" and "Genocide Blindness" [PDF]

, 2014
This article deals critically with the process of coming to terms with ‘genocide’. It starts from the observation that conventional philosophical and legal approaches to capturing the essence of ‘genocide’ through an improved definition necessarily fail ...
Mathias Thaler, Thaler, Mathias; id_orcid   +1 more
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Salutogenesis and the Prevention of Social Death: Cross-Cultural Lessons from Genocide-Impacted Rwandans and Indigenous Youth in Canada

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019
Combining trans-disciplinary theories with cross-cultural ethnographic research, this paper explores community-based approaches to genocide prevention among Canadian-Indigenous groups as well as with Rwandan student genocide survivors.
Jobb D. Arnold
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New Documents Shed Light: Why Did Peacekeepers Withdraw during Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide?

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
Why did the international community decide to withdraw United Nations peacekeeping troops from Rwanda during the 1994 genocide? Analysis of newly released documents and results from an international conference with former U.N.
Emily A. Willard
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Commemoration of Rwandan Genocide

, 2018
A description of the first day of a 100-day observance of the 24th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan Association of Maine marked the day in Portland with prayer, talks, singing, and the lighting of ...
Harrison, Kathreen
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