The dynamics of violence in central Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lemarchand, René
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]
Series:	National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century.
Subjects:	Africa, Central > Politics and government > 1960- Africa, Central > Economic conditions > 1960- Africa, Central > Ethnic relations > Political aspects. Political violence > Great Lakes Region (Africa) Geopolitics > Great Lakes Region (Africa) Genocide > Great Lakes Region (Africa)

Table of Contents:

The regional context. The geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region ; The road to Hell
Rwanda and Burundi: the genocidal twins. Comparative perspectives. Ethnicity as myth ; Genocide in the Great Lakes: which genocide? Whose genocide? ; Rwanda. The rationality of genocide ; Hate crimes ; The politics of memory ; Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered ; Burundi. Burundi 1972: a forgotten genocide ; Burundi at the crossroads ; Burundi's endangered transition
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: from failed state to fragile transition. A blocked transition: Zaire in 1993 ; Ethnic violence, public policies, and social capital in North Kivu ; The DRC: from failure to potential reconstruction ; The tunnel at the end of the light ; From Kabila to Kabila: what else is new?