Research Catalog

Title

Genocide and crisis in Central Africa : conflict roots, mass violence, and regional war / Christian P. Scherrer ; foreword by Robert Melson.

Author

Scherrer, Christian P.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

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Details

Description

xxx, 410 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while the mass killings in Burundi, especially in 1993 when some 200,000 Hutu and Tutsi were killed, and the current ongoing war in the Congo appear to have the potential to escalate into another round of genocide in the region. Scherrer explores the background to the conflicts in the Great Lakes Region as well as what the international community might do to break this tragic cycle of violence and despair. Following a chapter on the history of the region before independence in 1960/61, he examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the subsequent attempts to promote justice, reconstruction, human rights work, and genocide prevention. Scherrer pays particular attention to the role of the Western powers, the UN, and the aid system--and he is critical of all of these institutions. He also analyzes what is happening in neighboring Burundi and the Congo. An important research for scholars and policymakers involved with Central African affairs and ethnicized conflict.--

Subject

• Conference on Disarmament
• 1900-1999
• Genocide > Rwanda
• Violence > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century
• Burundi > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-408) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Robert Melson -- Introduction: From Auschwitz to Central Africa -- pt. I. Central Africa: History of a Troubled Region. 1. On the Historical Background to Preannounced Genocide. 2. Destructive Interaction between Rwanda and Burundi -- pt. II. The Genocide in Rwanda and Its Consequences. 3. Preparations for the Genocide, Complicity of Churches and Donors, and the Failure of the United Nations. 4. Analytical Summary and Regional Chronology 1990-1994. 5. The State-Organized Genocide in Rwanda. 6. Mass Murder, Mass Flight, and the Role of United Nations -- pt. III. The Impact of Aid. 7. Donor Complicity and Failures in Rwanda. 8. New Aid Priorities since the Genocide -- pt. IV. Crisis in the Central African Great Lakes Region.

ISBN

0275972240 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00064949^

OCLC

• 44979803
• SCSB-9961513

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library