Aiding Violence : the Development Enterprise in Rwanda.

Aiding Violence : the Development Enterprise in Rwanda.

*Winner of the African Studies Association's 1999 Herskovits Award *A boldly critical look at structural violence relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of massive genocide in a country considered by Western aid agencies to be a model of deve...

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Main Author: Uvin, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomfield : Kumarian Press, 1998.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Economic assistance > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Economic assistance
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Genocide
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against
Rwanda > Ethnic relations.
Rwanda > Economic conditions.
Rwanda
History
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I BACKGROUND
  • 1 RWANDA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE: A CONTESTED HISTORY
  • 2 AFTER INDEPENDENCE: STRATEGIES FOR ELITE CONSOLIDATION
  • 3 THE IMAGE OF RWANDA IN THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
  • PART II CRISIS, ELITE MANIPULATION, AND VIOLENCE IN THE 1990s
  • 4 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SOCIETY
  • 5 UNDER THE VOLCANO: THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY I N THE 1990s
  • PART III THE CONDITION OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
  • 6 FROM STRUCTURAL TO ACUTE VIOLENCE
  • 7 AID AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
  • Part iv two issues : the role of civil society and ecological resource scarcity8 and where was civil society?
  • 9 the role of ecological resource scarcity
  • part v conclusions
  • 10 why did people participate in genocide? a theoretically informed synthesis
  • 11 development a i d : conclusions and paths for reflection
  • bibliography
  • index
  • about the author

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