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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"rwandan genocide"”.
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Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide
… for becoming perpetrators of mass murder. The Rwandan genocide is chosen as a case study. The project strives to explain what seems inexplicable; why tens of thousands of Rwandan men and women turned into killers during the hundred days of genocide in 1994, most of them with no history of …
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Breaking the Silence: Women's Experiences With Sexual Violence During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
… making explicit how rape is used as a tool of genocide. In this thesis I argue that wartime rape serves as a means of genocide, a way to eliminate a group of individuals and their culture. A recent example of how rape worked as genocide is seen in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Rape was used as …
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
The Rwandan genocide is a complex subject that even works of written historical discourse struggle to explain. Previous filmic studies have primarily focused on three well known Rwandan genocide films, Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and Sometimes in April; this thesis expands its focus to nine feature …
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'Mastering the genocide narrative' : an analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's official narrative of the Rwandan genocide
How should the relevant facts about the Rwandan Government's construction of their narrative ofthe Rwandan genocide be established? A frequent point of emphasis by scholars is that an official narrative usually is put forward by the dominant or ruling group to serve their interests: the contents …
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The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994
The Rwandan Genocide occurred between April and July of 1994. Within those four months, approximately a million Tutsi were brutally murdered by the Hutu in an effort to cleanse the country of a Tutsi presence. The genocide was the culmination of decades of unrest between the two groups created from …
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SAVE `US' AND LET `THEM' DIE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF HOW NEW YORK TIMES SOLD U.S. POLICIES TOWARD RWANDAN GENOCIDE AND KOSOVO CRISIS
My critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the New York Times' front-page and editorial articles, within the framework of Herman and Chomsky's (1988) propaganda model, shows that the newspaper constructed the intervention in Rwanda as suicidal for the United States and beyond the capacity of the …
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Fertility in Rwanda: Impact of genocide, an ananlysis of fertility before, during and after 1994 genocide
The 20th century has witnessed several wars and genocides worldwide. Notable examples include the Armenian and Jews genocides which took place during World War I and World War II respectively. The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is a more recent example. These wars and genocides have impacted on the …
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Advocacy-orientated, advocacy-related and scholarly literature on the Rwandan genocide of 1994 : assessing whether the main points of concern, criticism or dispute about the literature arise from the basic facts and empirical evidence presented or from the interpretive frameworks employed to analyse them
… suggestion that much of the literature on the "Rwandan genocide of 1994" was based on empirically poor secondary analyses instead of "rigorous" original empirical research. The study was further alerted by Longman's indication that there had been "myths and inaccuracies" circulating in the …
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Agency, Identity, and Authority in Rwanda: 1950s Political Rhetoric as a Bridge to Post-Colonial Genocide
<p>During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu targeted Tutsi and allies. Interpreting this complex event requires examining the late 1950s. Analyzing Tutsi and Hutu in central Rwanda in 1957 improves understanding of political and social context preceding the genocide. This study rejects that the genocide …
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Analysis of legal issues arising from the principle of concurrent domestic and international jurisdiction : application to the Rwandan context
… one. As a result of the uniqueness of the Rwandan context, there were more courts hearing matters that arose from the genocide.6 In Rwanda, such cases are tried by ‘conventional courts’ and the ‘Gacaca’ courts. Gacaca is defined as a system of transitional participative community justice, …
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Constructing identities: the transition of the Hutu/Tutsi dichotomy in Rwanda
… people were killed during the hundred-day genocide in Rwanda. Neighbors killed neighbors, as ordinary civilians became both victims and killers. There is much debate surrounding the origins of the Hutu/Tutsi identity. This dichotomy has been constructed, reinforced and contested by those …
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The international covenant on economic social and cultural rights: a critical examination of the relative importance of resource constraints on benchmarks and benchmarking processes in the African context
… thirteen years removed from the horror of the Rwandan genocide and the fall of the dehumanizing apartheid regime. Situations in Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Swaziland are but a few of the current crises that characterize and testify to the consistent singing of this …
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Combatting Skepticism Against Religious Nationalism (With A Special Focus On Pakistan)
… case studies range from the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide to the assassinations of prominent Egyptian and Indian politicians at the hands of nationalist groups. The general analysis is followed by a deeper look into the evolution of nationalism within Pakistan to understand how nationalism …
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Politics as Violence: A Girardian Analysis of Pre-Genocide Rwandan Politics
In 1994 genocide occurred in the tiny, crowded country of Rwanda in the Great Lakes region of Africa. What was unique to that genocide was its efficiency and use of low technology weapons: somewhere around 800,000 to one million persons were killed, mainly by machetes and bullets, and often by …
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A critical analysis of South African peacemaking in the conflicts in the Great Lakes region
… three events in the Great Lakes region: the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the First Congo War in 1996, and the Second Congo War in 1998. The dissertation takes an empirical approach and focuses on eastern DRC, which has the highest concentration of causalities and is crucial to the wars of the DRC. In …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… Children</i> examines the Bangladeshi genocide through a variety of literary strategies, especially hyperbole, to produce a crisis of history to indict the Cold War arms trade on equal terms with a war criminal. Similarly, Boubicar Boris Diop's novel <i>Murambi, The Book of Bones</i> …
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The politics of ethnic minority radio in South Africa
… example, in the Nigerian ethnic conflicts, the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and in the Kenyan ethnic violence of 2008 have brought more focus on challenges involved with policing ethnic media and managing ethnic relations in contemporary Africa. This study focuses on attempts by the reformed South …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… accounts of state-sponsored torture and genocide that they themselves have not experienced firsthand. It examines how certain secondary witnessing postures and practices have been made commonsense for readers—public readerly subjectivities as well as professionalized ones such as literary …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… they address. Chapter Three moves to the Rwandan genocide and its representation in both fictional and autobiographical comics, drawing together landscape, colonialism, and trauma. In Chapter Four, I move to an examination of Art Spiegelman’s response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, …
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