The Path of a Genocide

The Path of a Genocide
Author: Astri Suhrke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351477676

The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.

The Path of a Genocide

The Path of a Genocide
Author: Howard Adelman
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2000-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765807687

The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies. Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response. The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.

The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers
Author: Folajinmi Olabode Adisa
Publisher: Unchs (Habitat)
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Comfort of Strangers gives detailed information on the background to the Rwandan refugee problem and a vivid portrayal of the effects of the mass exodus of Rwandans into Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Zaire. The global community has, over the past eighty years, put in place an international refugee regime to regularize the status and provide for the control of stateless people ail over the world. Although host communities may initially open their doors to large numbers of people fleeing from their homelands, the long-term impact on the host countries is usually devastating and not often taken into account. This includes environmental dégradation, diminishing food security, dépréciation of the infrastructural base, pressure on the social and health sectors 3nd security risks. These Iead to sympathy fatigue and resentment. This book embodies an in-depth report made for UNCHS (Habitat) on the Rwandan refugee crisis and makes recommendations for its resolution, including compensation for host communites to enable them restore basic infrastructures and increase administrative capacity. Dr. Adisa also calls for a more efficient and humane treatment of the refugees and for their assisted resettlement.

Uganda

Uganda
Author: Philip Briggs
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2010
Genre: Uganda
ISBN: 1841623091

Whether visitors want to climb to the snows of the fabled Mountains of the Moon, raft the headwaters of the mighty Nile, or marvel at the legendary tree-climbing lions of Ishasha, this edition is the most comprehensive resource available.

A Thousand Hills to Heaven

A Thousand Hills to Heaven
Author: Josh Ruxin
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316232890

One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together. While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide.

Exile from Rwanda

Exile from Rwanda
Author: Catharine Watson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1991
Genre: Genocide
ISBN:

This paper concerns Rwandese refugees who have been stateless for three decades. It begins with a description of the exile from Rwanda as background to the invasion of Rwanda of 1 October 1990. The paper looks at the history of the Banyarwanda refugees in Uganda, their present status and frustrations. This history traces the Banyarwanda's early roots through feudalism and colonialism and the Hutu challenge. The description of the Banyarwanda in Uganda includes a map of the location of Banyarwanda in Uganda and attacks on them between 1981 and 1989, as well as a brief political history. The report indicates the conflict areas inside Rwanda, the invasion plans and the invasion itself. The new refugees created by the invasion are portrayed. The positions of the Rwandan and Ugandan Governments are given in the context of several recommendations for a solution to the problem of the Rwandan refugees.