Remaking Rwanda : state building and human rights after mass violence / edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Straus, Scott, 1970-

Waldorf, Lars.

Series:

Critical human rights.

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Rwanda.

Human rights.

Rwanda--History--1994-.

Rwanda.

Rwanda--Politics and government--1994-.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 382 p. : maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Remaking Rwandais the first book to examine Rwanda's remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the country's reconstruction.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps of Rwanda

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Alison Des Forges: Remembering a Human Rights Heor / Kenneth Roth

The Historian as Human Rights Activist / David Newbury

Introduction: Seeing Like a Post-Conflict State / Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf

Part I: Governance and State Building

1. Limitations to Political Reform: The Undemocratic Nature of Transition in Rwanda / Timothy Longman

2. Instrumentalizing Genocide: The RPF's Campaign against "Genocide Ideology" / Lars Waldorf

3. The Ruler's Drum and the People's Shout: Accountability and Representation on Rwanda's Hills / Bert Ingelaere

4. Building a Rwanda "Fit for Children" / Kirrily Pells

5. Beyond "You're with Us or against Us" : Civil Society and Policymaking in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Paul Gready

Part II: International and Regional Contexts

6. Aid Dependence and Policy Independence: Explaining the Rwandan Paradox / Eugenia Zorbas

7. Funding Fraud? : Donors and Democracy in Rwanda / Rachel Hayman

8. Waging (Civil) War Abroad: Rwanda and the DRC / Filip Reyntjens

9. Bad Karma: Accountability for Rwandan Crimes in the Congo / Jason Stearns and Federico Borello

Part III: Justice

10. Victor's Justice Revisited: Rwandan Patriotic Front Crimes and the Prosecutorial Endgame at the ICTR / Victor Peskin

11. The Uneasy Relationship between the ICTR and "Gacaca" / Don Webster

12. The Sovu Trials: The Impact of Genocide Justice of One Community / Max Rettig

13. "All Rwandans Are Afraid of Being Arrested One Day" : Prisoners Past, Present, and Future / Carina Tertsakian

Part IV: Rural Reengineering

14. High Modernism at the Ground Level: The "Imidugudu" Policy in Rwanda / Catharine Newbury

15. Rwanda's Post-Genocide Economic Reconstruction: The Mismatch between Elite Ambitions and Rural Realities / An Ansoms.

16. The Presidential Land Commission: Undermining Land Law Reform / Chris Huggins

Part V: History and Memory

17. The Past Is Elsewhere: The Paradoxes of Proscribing Ethnicity in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham

18. Topographies of Remembering and Forgetting: The Transformation of "Lieux de Memoire" in Rwanda / Jens Meierhenrich

19. Teaching History in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Harvey M. Weinstein, K. L. Murphy, and Timothy Longman

20. Young Rwandans' Narratives of the Past (and Present) / Lyndsay McLean Hilker

21. Reeducation for Reconciliation: Participant Observations on "Ingando" / Susan Thomson

Part VI: Concluding Observations

Justice and Human Rights for All Rwandans / Joseph Sebarenzi

The Dancing Is Still the Same / Aloys Habimana

Acknowlegments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613077615

9781283077613

1283077612

9780299282639

0299282635

OCLC:

714811956