Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence (Critical Human Rights) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299282643 ISBN 13: 9780299282646

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda’s politics, economy, and society, and the country’s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is 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. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda brings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda―one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation’s past and raises profound questions about its future. “Remaking Rwanda is an ambitious book, a rich and varied compilation that demonstrates the full complement of approaches, methods, and concerns informing the study of post-genocide Rwanda.” ―Lee Ann Fujii, author of Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda.

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About the Author

Scott Straus is associate professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin&;Madison and author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Lars Waldorf, senior lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, is coeditor of Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence and Disarming the Past: Transitional Justice and Ex-Combatants.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299282643
• ISBN 13: 9780299282646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Straus Scott, Waldorf Lars