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Rwanda, Kibeho 1995, un massacre impensable
SocioIn April 1995, a year after the Tutsi genocide, the new Rwandan regime wanted to close the camps for internally displaced people. These camps, particularly Kibeho, in the South-West of the country, were home to hundreds of thousands of Hutus who had been
Jean-Hervé Bradol
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.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
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The Contribution of Social Movement Theory to Understanding Genocide [PDF]
, 2019 Recent years have witnessed a turn in the field of contentious politics toward the study of political violence, yet scholars have yet to focus their lens on genocide.
Luft, Aliza
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Social capital’s “vicious potential” revealed through Rwandan genocide [PDF]
, 2014 In this post, Syerramia Willoughby examines a recent research paper entitled Anti-Social Capital: A Profile of Rwandan Genocide Perpetrators’ Social Networks by LSE’s Dr Omar McDoom in which he explores the motivations of those Hutus who turned on their ...
Willoughby, Syerramia
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity [PDF]
, 2007 This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with ...
Alison, Miranda H.
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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The Rwandan Patriotic Front 1990-1994
Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesAdrien Fontanellaz and Tom Cooper. The Rwandan Patriotic Front 1990-1994. (AFRICA@WAR 24), Helion & Company Limited: Solihull, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-910294-56-7, pp.
Gábor Sinkó
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