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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I BACKGROUND -- 1 RWANDA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE: A CONTESTED HISTORY -- 2 AFTER INDEPENDENCE: STRATEGIES FOR ELITE CONSOLIDATION -- 3 THE IMAGE OF RWANDA IN THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY -- PART II CRISIS, ELITE MANIPULATION, AND VIOLENCE IN THE 1990s -- 4 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SOCIETY -- 5 UNDER THE VOLCANO: THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY I N THE 1990s -- PART III THE CONDITION OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE -- 6 FROM STRUCTURAL TO ACUTE VIOLENCE -- 7 AID AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE |
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Part iv two issues : the role of civil society and ecological resource scarcity8 and where was civil society? -- 9 the role of ecological resource scarcity -- part v conclusions -- 10 why did people participate in genocide? a theoretically informed synthesis -- 11 development a i d : conclusions and paths for reflection -- bibliography -- index -- about the author |
| Summary |
*Winner of the African Studies Association's 1999 Herskovits Award *A boldly critical look at structural violence relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of massive genocide in a country considered by Western aid agencies to be a model of development. Focusing on the 1990s dynamics of militarization and polarization that resulted in genocide, Uvin reveals how aid enterprises reacted, or failed to react, to those dynamics. By outlining the profound structural basis on which the genocidal edifice was built, the book exposes practices of ine |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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Economic assistance -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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Economic assistance
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Economic history
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Ethnic relations
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Genocide
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against
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Rwanda -- Ethnic relations
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Rwanda -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Rwanda
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781565492516 |
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156549251X |
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