On the Path to Genocide : Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined / Deborah Mayersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayersen, Deborah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian massacres (1915-1923).

Armenians--Crimes against--Turkey.

Armenians.

Genocide--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Genocide--Prevention.

Genocide--Turkey--History--20th century.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Historiography.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

Genocide--History.

Rwanda--Ethnic relations.

Rwanda.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire? How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades of relative peace and even cooperation between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority? Addressing, for the first time, the question of how the risk of genocide develops over time, this book helps us to better understand why genocide occurs when it does. It provides a comprehensive historical analysis of the factors that led to the 1915 Ar

Contents:

Introduction: 'The symptoms of an explosive situation' : the temporal model of genocide

Part I. The Armenian genocide. 'Trying desperately to escape history' : the Armenian question ; 'A settled plan to slowly exterminate' : the Hamidian massacres ; 'They will have to be destroyed' : from massacre to genocide

Part II. The Rwandan genocide. 'A European under black skin' : precolonial and colonial Rwanda ; 'A massive rejection of the Tutsi as fellow nationals' : race, violence and independence ; 'A cockroach gives birth to another cockroach' : from coexistence to extermination

Part III. The path to genocide. 'Driven by ethnic exclusivism' : on the timing of genocide ; 'Our only hope, therefore, rests on the obstacle' : constraints against genocide ; 'A pattern ... repeated numerous times' : the wider applicability of the temporal model

Conclusion: 'We are all brothers' : the temporal model and genocide prevention.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-513-1

1-78238-285-2

OCLC:

875096100