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In the Shadow of Genocide [PDF]

, 2022
This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their ...

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Traumatized Ecology: Ecocritical Study of Scholastique Mukasonga’s writing

Ikhtilaf
Various researchers have offered critical opportunities for reading the Rwandan genocide literature in general and the testimony of Scholastique Mukasonga in particular through trauma and memory studies.
Richard Oko Ajah
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Genocide on the Airwaves: An Analysis of the International Law Concerning Radio Jamming

Journal of Hate Studies, 2006
Using the Rwandan genocide as an example, this article makes a case for allowing the jamming of radios that are broadcasting hate speech in situations in which such hate speech would incite genocide.
Meghna Rajadhyaksha
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Artefakte der Holocaustliteratur im afrikanischen Kontext

S: I. M. O. N., 2022
This paper explores dialogical entanglements between the Holocaust Literature and the Literature to genocide in Rwanda. The evidence of thematic, formal and aesthetic connections confirms the paradigmatic position of the Holocaust in connection with the ...
Messan Tossa
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Rwanda, Kibeho 1995, un massacre impensable

Socio
In 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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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
wiley   +1 more source

Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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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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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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, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared Edgerton, Anneliese Ward   +2 more
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