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xiii While I ac cept full re spon sibil ity for the ideas and anal y sis pre sented in this book, the in tel lec tual work herein would not have been pos sible with out the con tri bu tions of nu mer ous peo ple and in sti tu tions over the years. I will at tempt here to thank many of them, but I am sure to miss some, and there are still oth ers who pre fer to re main anon y mous. For their in tel lec tual and moral sup port of this pro ject over the years, I would like to thank Bob Dan iels, Cath a rine New bury, and David New bury. Sev eral re gional spe cial ists and schol ars men tored me dur ing my field work in Rwanda, be lieved in my pro ject, and en cour aged me to con tinue, in clud ing Tim o thy Long man, Simon Ga sib i rege, Vil lia Jef re mo vas, Déo gra tias Mbon yin kebe, Jean Ru gagi Ni zu ru gero, Da nielle de Lame, Johan Pot tier, and Peter Uvin. Dur ing my dis ser ta tion field work, Al i son Des Forges offered use ful ad vice, help ful con tacts, and moral sup port; after field work, she offered crit i cal feed back as well as en cour age ment. Her wis dom and deep knowl edge of Rwan dan his tory, cul ture, and pol i tics as well as her cou rage are deeply Ac knowl edg ments xiv Acknowledgments missed. Thanks and grat i tude go to Lee Ann Fuji, Ann Porter Rall, Lars Wal dorf, Susan Thom son, and Peter Ver wimp for their mu tual moral sup port in re search and ex change of ideas. Dur ing my grad u ate work at the Uni ver sity of North Car o lina at Chapel Hill, Cathy Lutz, Judy Far qu har, Mi chaelLam bert,DonNon ini,Ju liusNyan goro,Pa tri ciaSawin,andAl phonse Mu tima helped me grow into a scholar. At the Joan B. Kroc In sti tute for Inter na tional Peace Stud ies, Scott Ap pleby, David Cort right, John Darby, La rissa Fast, and Rash ied Omar intro duced me to peace stud ies as a dis ci pline in stead of a topic. My col leagues in the De part ment of Anthro pol ogy at the Uni ver sity of Louis ville have given help ful feed back and en cour age ment along the way. They have all in flu enced this book in ways diffi cult to meas ure. I would like to ac knowl edge the hard work, pa tience, and strength of my Rwan dan re search as sist ants: Ber na dette Mu mu kunde, Dan cille Mu kar u bibi, and Elise Nim u gire. Dur ing the years of my field work, their in sights and trans la tion skills were in val u able. I hope Elise’s chil dren will grow up to know the true cou rage of the mother they never knew. My grat i tude goes to Father Ire née Jacob as well as his as sist ant Thérèse, who in itiated me in Kin yar wanda and gave me the best pro nun ci a tion ad vice ever: “Kin yar wanda is sung, not spoken.” I would also like to thank the many peo ple in Rwanda who have pro vided lo gis ti cal sup port, hous ing, and, most im por tant, friend ship to me over the years, in clud ing Odette, Ven e randa, Norah, Cres sence, Yvette, the Ru gan gura fam ily, Ver o nique, Pris cille, Fré déric and Jeanne Jac quet, JeanPierre Dal fau, Michel Cam pion, Father Ro main, Klaas de Jonge, Sara Ra kita, Ju dith Reg is tre, Anne Mor ris, Ruth and Charles, and the many oth ers I have ne glected to men tion. Thank you to Anne Wels chen, Sa bine Cor ne lis, Da nielle de Lame, and Nancy Van der lin den of the Musée royal de l’Afrique cen trale in Ter vuren, Bel gium, for their as sis tance lo cat ing the co lo nial era image of Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa of...