A brand new edition Nelles Map with a scale of 1:1.5 Million. It features transport systems, rail networks, physical relief mapping and distance indicators. Major tourist sites are highlighted and the high quality paper ensures durability and easy f…
This book is a guide to the law that applies in the three international criminal tribunals, for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, set up by the UN during the period 1993 to 2002 to deal with atrocities and human rights abuses committed…
Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes.…
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian e…
This report is the third overview by Filip Reyntjens on recent developments in Rwanda and Burundi. The previous ones have been published in 1999 and 2000. In this publication the political evolution of Rwanda and Burundi is investigated in a broader…
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that…
"You will understand Africa differently after reading this book...the richly reported stories he tells to make his case are unforgettable." -William Finnegan.. Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwa…
The efficiency of the Hutu killers in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 exceeded even that of the Nazi Holocaust. It happened in front of the world's eyes, every moment broadcast on television - but nothing was done. Among the 80,0000 Tutsis killed were…
A prize-winning group of war reporters and analysts looks back on the killing fields of the late twentieth century and poses provocative questions for the future of human rights. The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of…
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Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994. Incorporating elements of both African dispute resolution and of Western-style criminal courts, Gacaca courts are in line with recent trends to revive traditional grassro…
This report is the second overview by Filip Reyntjens on present developments in Rwanda and Burundi. The first one "Talking or Fighting?" (published 1999) covered the period 1998-1999. In the new publication, questions such as governance and institu…
Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse and political corruption that culminated with…
This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from th…
I maj 2003 släpptes en grupp hutuer ur ett fängelse i Rwanda. De hade alla dömts för sin delaktighet i folkmordet 1994, nu kunde de återvända till sin hemkommun strax söder om huvudstaden Kigali. Där bodde innan folkmordet 60000 tutsier, bara var s…
Today's international war crimes tribunals lack police powers, and therefore must prod and persuade defiant states to co-operate in the arrest and prosecution of their own political and military leaders. Victor Peskin's comparative 2008 study traces…
The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study sho…
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994, her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree tha…
