| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) : maps |
| Series |
National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century |
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National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 2: The Road to Hell -- 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 -- Map 5 -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-311) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 4, 2016) |
| Subject |
Political violence -- Great Lakes Region (Africa)
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Geopolitics -- Great Lakes Region (Africa)
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Genocide -- Great Lakes Region (Africa)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing & Emerging Countries.
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Economic history
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Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
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Genocide
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Geopolitics
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Politics and government
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Political violence
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Central -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005972
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Africa, Central -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006306
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Africa, Central -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
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| Subject |
Central Africa
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Africa -- Great Lakes Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008018612 |
| ISBN |
9780812202595 |
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0812202597 |
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0812241207 |
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9780812241204 |
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0812220900 |
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9780812220902 |
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