Omar Shahabudin McDoom

Path to Genocide in Rwanda (eBook, ePUB)

Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The shocking characteristics of Rwanda's genocide in 1994 have etched themselves indelibly on the global conscience. The Path to Genocide in Rwanda combines extensive, original field data with some of the best existing evidence to evaluate the myriad theories behind the genocide and to offer a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why it occurred, and why so many Rwandans participated in it. Drawing on interviews with over three hundred Rwandans, Omar Shahabudin McDoom systematically compares those who participated in the violence against those who did not. He contrasts communities that experienced violence early with communities where violence began late, as well as communities where violence was limited with communities where it was massive. His findings offer new perspectives on some of the most troubling questions concerning the genocide, while also providing a broader engagement with key theoretical debates in the study of genocides and ethnic conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108870320
• Artikelnr.: 62746538

Autorenporträt

Omar Shahabudin McDoom is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A political scientist and lawyer by training, he has been researching Rwanda's genocide since he first visited the country in 2003. He has previously held research fellowships at Harvard and Oxford universities and, prior to academia, he worked as a Policy Officer for the World Bank where his interest in the genocide originated.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What We Do and Do Not Know
2. An Extraordinary Baseline
3. Security: War-time Threat
4. Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom
5. Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father
6. Authority: Rwanda's privatized and powerful state
7. Why some killed and others did not
8. Conclusion: Rwanda in Retrospect.