TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemarchand,René
AU  - Lemarchand,René
TI  - The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
T2  - National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century Series
SN  - 9780812202595
AV  - DT352.8 -- .L46 2009eb 
U1  - 967.03 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Political violence-Great Lakes Region (Africa)
KW  - Geopolitics-Great Lakes Region (Africa)
KW  - Genocide-Great Lakes Region (Africa)
KW  - Africa, Central-Politics and government-1960-
KW  - Africa, Central-Economic conditions-1960-
KW  - Africa, Central-Ethnic relations-Political aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Regional Context -- Chapter 1. The Geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 2. The Road to Hell -- Part II: Rwanda and Burundi: The Genocidal Twins -- Chapter 3. Ethnicity as Myth -- Chapter 4. Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? -- Chapter 5. The Rationality of Genocide -- Chapter 6. Hate Crimes -- Chapter 7. The Politics of Memory -- Chapter 8. Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered -- Chapter 9. Burundi 1972: A Forgotten Genocide -- Chapter 10. Burundi at the Crossroads -- Chapter 11. Burundi's Endangered Transition -- Part III: The Democratic Republic of the Congo: From Failed State to Fragile Transition -- Chapter 12. A Blocked Transition: Zaire in 1993 -- Chapter 13. Ethnic Violence, Public Policies, and Social Capital in North Kivu -- Chapter 14. The DRC: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction -- Chapter 15. The Tunnel at the End of the Light -- Chapter 16. From Kabila to Kabila: What Else is New? -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent
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