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  • Sacrifice as Terror

    The Rwandan Genocide of 1994

    par Christopher C. Taylor ...
    Collections series Global Issues
    In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompanying him threatened ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

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  • Wars, Guns, and Votes

    Democracy in Dangerous Places

    par Paul Collier ...
    An expert on developing nations offers "accessible and very sensible analysis" of America's promotion of democracy abroad—and why it often fails ( Publishers Weekly).Oxford economist Paul Collier gives an eye-opening assessment of the corruption and political violence that plague developing nations across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While many of these governments meet America's standards for ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name

    The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    par Jason K. Stearns ...
    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a “forever war”—a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

  • The Betrayal of Africa

    A Groundwork Guide

    par Gerald Caplan, Jane Springer ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Groundwork Guides
    "[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and MailThink Africa, and many people think of brutal war, endless famine, pervasive corruption, unworthy rulers, universal poverty, an AIDS epidemic out of control. As this book ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Order of Genocide

    Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    par Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP)The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Living with Bad Surroundings

    War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

    par Sverker Finnström, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Collections series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Eyewitness to a Genocide

    The United Nations and Rwanda

    par Michael Barnett ...
    Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

    From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    par Robin Philpot ...
    The book comprises three parts. The first part addresses the little-discussed but crucial events preceding the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    par Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Killing Neighbors

    Webs of Violence in Rwanda

    par Lee Ann Fujii ...
    Killing Neighbors is a fine contribution to the literature on the Rwandan genocide and offers a different kind of explanation for what occurred that accommodates the differentiation in actions among Hutu at the local level. This micro-sociological approach is welcome as community level understandings of the political can be quite different from centralized narratives. It is difficult to imagine a ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    par Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    par Rene Lemarchand ...
    Collections series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD