Rwanda  (tagged articles)

Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture

Emily Bennett - Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal of memorialization. Memorialization efforts are museums, institutions, policy, law, education, documentaries and first person accounts... Keep Reading »
Photo: Surian Soosay CC-2

Addressing the Use of Sexual Violence as a Strategic Weapon of War

Joshua A. Jones - This paper examines historical and contemporary instances wherein sexual violence, specifically rape, was used as a strategic weapon amid both traditional and tribal conflict, as well as in genocidal operations. It analyzes the cogency of sexual violence as a weapon... Keep Reading »

Mass Killing: Politics By Other Means

Brian Chao - Mass killing (often carried out in the form of genocide) offends the sensibilities of many people around the world. It is considered a "crime against humanity," such is its barbarity and ruthlessness. When it occurs, the question often asked by both victims and bystanders... Keep Reading »

Ending Ethnic Conflict and Creating Positive Peace in Rwanda and Sierra Leone

Katherine J. Wolfenden - Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated to the religious domain and excluded from the study and practice of politics.[1] At the same time, war--organized violent conflict between... Keep Reading »
Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives CC-2

The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Lauren Young - The year 1993 was not a good one for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty- second President of the United States,... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Rwanda is tagged in the following 11 articles.

Genocide
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
Genocide Memorialization in the Modern Era: Communal Mourning Through Institutions and Culture
By Emily Bennett
Genocide Memorialization focuses on the community after a genocide in what they choose to remember and how they achieve that goal of memorialization. Memorialization efforts are museums, institutions, policy, law, education, documentaries and first... Read Article »
Genocide Rwandan Genocide Holocaust Indonesia Khmer Rouge Human Rights Memorialization Museums
International Law
2013, Vol. 5 No. 04
Addressing the Use of Sexual Violence as a Strategic Weapon of War
By Joshua A. Jones
This paper examines historical and contemporary instances wherein sexual violence, specifically rape, was used as a strategic weapon amid both traditional and tribal conflict, as well as in genocidal operations. It analyzes the cogency of sexual... Read Article »
Rape Sexual Violence War Human Rights International Law Rwanda Bosnia-Herzegovina
Genocide
2011, Vol. 4 No. 2
Mass Killing: Politics By Other Means
By Brian Chao
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
Mass killing (often carried out in the form of genocide) offends the sensibilities of many people around the world. It is considered a "crime against humanity," such is its barbarity and ruthlessness. When it occurs, the question often asked by... Read Article »
Genocide Mass Killing Rwandan Genocide War Violence
Ethnic Conflict
2011, Vol. 3 No. 01
Ending Ethnic Conflict and Creating Positive Peace in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
By Katherine J. Wolfenden
Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated to the religious domain and excluded from the study and practice of politics.[1] At the same time, war--organized... Read Article »
Ethnic Conflict Civil War Positive Peace Rwanda Sierra Leone Non Violence Sub-Saharan Africa
Colonialism
2010, Vol. 2 No. 07
A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa
By Chloe S. Manchester
There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater deal of suffering than others. Over time certain societies have developed through a series of phases of modernity... Read Article »
Colonialism Human Rights Politics Government Africa Rwanda Burundi Genocide Counter Racism Third World Development
Rwanda
2010, Vol. 2 No. 04
The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
By Lauren Young
The year 1993 was not a good one for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty- second President of... Read Article »
Bill Clinton Rwanda Genocide Foreign Policy Rwandan Genocide Ethnic Conflict Human Rights
Rwanda
2010, Vol. 2 No. 01
Triumph over Tragedy: The Women's Movement of Rwanda Finds Success Post-Genocide
By Marissa B. Goldfaden
On April 6, 1994, the Hutu[1] president of Rwanda and the newly elected president of Burundi, also a Hutu, were both assassinated when their jet was shot down while landing in Kigali. In response to the April killing of the two state presidents,... Read Article »
Rwanda Women Genocide Women's Movement Women's Empowerment Women's Right Womens Woman Post-genocide Grass Roots
Genocide
2009, Vol. 1 No. 12
An Argument for Outlawing Genocide Denial
By Marissa B. Goldfaden
More than half a century ago, famed philosopher George Santayana observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 20th century alone, the world bore witness to the Holocaust in Europe, as well as genocide... Read Article »
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Rwanda
2009, Vol. 1 No. 12
A Study in Violence: Examining Rape in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
By Violet K. Dixon
“The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible was the absence, the erasure of seeing the other, of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics... Read Article »
Rape Genocide Violence Against Women Rwanda Rwandan Genocide Human Rights
International Justice
2008, Vol. 1 No. 2
Justice: Evasive and Amorphous
By Harin Song
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
With mass atrocities ongoing in Darfur and past atrocities yet to be addressed, the question of how to achieve accountability for human rights violations in the context of post-conflict society has never been a more pressing concern. But justice... Read Article »
International Justice Human Rights Truth Commissions Reconciliation Rwanda Darfur East Timor
Africa
1997, Vol. 1996/1997 No. 2
The Western Media and Africa: Issues of Information and Images
By Amy Biney
Published by Interstate - Journal of International Affairs
Africa has been portrayed as the dark continent in need of civilising, and its heathen peoples in need of enlightenment through enslavement and colonisation. Africa has been presented as a continent in the difficult throes of trying to become... Read Article »
Africa Western Media Humanitarianism Somalia Rwanda Belgian Colonialism

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