Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in…
Une étude sur le génocide rwandais; les interventions de la France et de la communauté internationale pour la fin du massacre.
Les tueries de 1994 au Rwanda ne doivent pas faire oublier les massacres antérieurs dans ce pays, ni les événements tout aussi tragiques qui ont endeuillé le Burundi en 1965, en l 972, en 1988, en 1991, en 1993. Et malheureusement nul ne doute que ces conflits, se nourrissant le…
In 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed the lives of at least 500,000 Tutsi-some three-quarters of their population-while UN peacekeepers were withdrawn and the rest of the world stood aside. Ever since, it has been argued that a small military intervention could have prevented most …
Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, this book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace.
''This book offers an examination of how a deeply divided post-conflict society embarks on democratic transition. Using Rwanda as the case study, it combines analysis of democratic transition and ethnopolitical debate, asking why deeply divided ethnic societies have a tendency t…