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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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Punishing Genocide: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of Sentencing Laws and Practices at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Rwandan Domestic Courts, and Gacaca Courts

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2016
This article compares sentencing of those convicted of participation in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. With over one million people facing trial, Rwanda constitutes the world’s most comprehensive case of criminal accountability after genocide and presents ...
Barbora Hola, Hollie Nyseth Brehm
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The dynamics of deliberate and unintentional amnesia in narrative sensemaking and enaction of resilience: A case study of four Rwandan narratives of genocide survival

Cogent Social Sciences, 2016
In this case study, the author reports the findings of the narrative analyses of four Rwandan former refugees and genocide survivors from the USC-Shoah visual archive of holocaust and genocide survivors’ testimony.
Seif Sekalala
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Collapse, war and reconstruction in Rwanda : an analytical narrative on state-making

, 2009
Rwanda entered independence following a transition marked by violent internecine conflict. The conflict was stoked by the departing colonial rulers as they sought to place control of the levers of state in the hands of an ethnic majority, which they had ...
Golooba-Mutebi, Frederick
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The UK's Response to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

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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“You Feel Like You Belong Nowhere”: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Social Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2020
Globally, the systematic use of sexual violence in modern warfare has resulted in the birth of thousands of children. Research has begun to focus on this often invisible group and the obstacles they face, including stigma, discrimination and exclusion ...
Myriam Denov, Laura Eramian, Meaghan C. Shevell   +2 more
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Do we understand life after genocide? Centre and periphery in the knowledge construction in/on Rwanda

A reflection on the existing “constructs of knowledge” on Rwanda reveals that these are rife with contradictory assertions and images. We therefore map “the frontier of knowledge construction”, the centre(s) of society where not only policy is made, but ...
Ingelaere, Bert
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Monénembo\u27s L\u27Aîné des orphelins and the Rwandan Genocide

, 2004
In her paper, Monénembo\u27s L\u27Aîné des orphelins and the Rwandan Genocide, Lisa McNee discusses Tierno Monénembo\u27s L\u27Aîné des orphelins, a novel that offers a double discourse and a dual memory of the genocide that took place in Rwanda in ...
McNee, Lisa, Lisa McNee
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Sacrifício rei, estado ruandês e genocídio

Caderno CRH
Em contraste com as análises do genocídio ruandês de 1994, que privilegiam o político, este artigo sustenta que o poder e a política durante o tempo que precedeu o genocídio foram afetadas por noções ruandesas específicas de cosmologia e ontologia.
Christopher C. Taylor
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