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- Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Critical Human Rights
summary
In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda’s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country’s reconstruction.
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda—one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future.
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Table of Contents
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- Maps of Rwanda
- pp. x-xi
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xxi
- Alison Des Forges: Remembering a Human Rights Hero
- pp. xxiii-xxv
- The Historian as Human Rights Activist
- pp. xxvii-xxxix
- Part I: Governance and State Building
- Part II: International and Regional Contexts
- Part III: Justice
- Part IV: Rural Reengineering
- Part V: History and Memory
- 19. Teaching History in Post-Genocide Rwanda
- pp. 297-315
- Part VI: Concluding Observations
- Justice and Human Rights for All Rwandans
- pp. 343-353
- The Dancing Is Still the Same
- pp. 354-356
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 357-358
- Contributors
- pp. 359-362
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299282639
Related ISBN(s)
9780299282646
MARC Record
OCLC
714811956
Pages
423
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011