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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | The recurring Great Lakes crisis: identity, violence and power |
Editors: | Chrétien, Jean-Pierre Banégas, Richard |
Year: | 2008 |
Pages: | 256 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Hurst |
ISBN: | 9781850658238; 1850658226; 9781850658221 |
Geographic terms: | Great Lakes region Congo (Democratic Republic of) Burundi Rwanda Uganda |
Subjects: | civil wars genocide political conditions social conditions |
Abstract: | The fruit of more than two years (September 2000 to October 2002) of field work and exploitation of data collected in Africa, this volume commences with an Introduction: Rethinking the Great Lakes crisis: war, violence and political recompositions in Africa by Richard Banégas. Part One, entitled Genealogies of Violence, is composed of two contributions: The recurrence of violence in Burundi: memories of the 'catastrophe' of 1972 by Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Rwanda: the Catholic Church and the crisis: autopsy of a legacy by Marcel Kabanda. Part Two, Social Ruptures and Political Recomposition, contains three essays: Congo-Kinshasa from one war to another: sociopolitical practices and political 'imaginaires' by Alphonse Maindo; Political crisis and social reconfigurations: the 'disaster victims' in Burundi by Alexandre Hatungimana; and Rwanda's security trap and participation in the 1994 genocide by Scott Strauss. The title of Part Three is Local Issues and International Perspectives and contains two essays: The 'ethnic' conflict in Ituri district: overlapping of local and international in Congo-Kinshasa by Gérard Prunier and Democracy, security and governance in Uganda: the contradictions of post-conflict reconstruction by Richard Banégas. The title of the Conclusions, by Jean-Pierre Chrétien, is Diverse situations/interconnected crises. [ASC Leiden abstract] |