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The UK's Response to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 [PDF]
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair described the UK’s response to the Rwandan genocide as “We knew. We failed to act. We were responsible”; this thesis sets out to explore these three claims.
White, Dean
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Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression
ABSTRACT The words we use to represent the world shape how we interpret and respond to it; language frames what it represents. In some cases, these frames can have prejudicial effects; for example, ‘workplace flirting’ versus ‘sexual harassment’. This article examines how specific words and phrases (i.e.
Emilia L. Wilson
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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [PDF]
There is an extensive literature on violent conflicts such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but few papers examine the profiles of victims and perpetrators, or more broadly the micro-level dynamics of widespread violence.
Verwimp, Philip, de Walque, Damien
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Social capital’s “vicious potential” revealed through Rwandan genocide
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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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
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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Flyer for The Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath
Flyer advertising the course "The Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath" during the 2019 summer session.
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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In genocide studies, for a more comprehensive, objective study of genocide committed against victim groups, the method of comparative analysis is used, which allows to identify both similarities and features between different examples of this crime.
Armen Marukyan
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Human Capital, Natural Resource Scarcity and the Rwandan Genocide [PDF]
DRMI Working Paper SeriesMany authors contend that ethnic extremism coupled with political manipulation were the primary factors behind the Rwandan genocide.
McNab, Robert M., Mohamed, Abdul Latif
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La politique de mémoire du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda : enjeux et évolutions
Since its establishment in 2008, Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight against Genocide has held the task of managing the memory of the 1994 genocide.
Rémi Korman
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Writing ‘Parrhesia’, Narrating ‘the Other Rwandan Genocide’
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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