Remaking Rwanda print on demand - State Building and Human Rights After Mass Violence

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Straus, Scott Waldorf Straus
• Assisted by: Scott Straus (Editor), Lars Waldorf (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780299282646
• ISBN: 978-0-299-28264-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 232 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Critical Human Rights; Critical Human Rights
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous