Burundi - Ethnic Conflict and Genocide

Klappentext This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi! and provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and violence that followed. Zusammenfassung This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analysing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Burundi paradox; 2. The meta-conflict: violence as discourse; 3. History as prologue; 4. The crystallization of ethnic tensions; 5. The 1972 watershed; 6. The restructuring of state-society relations; 7. The 1988 killings: the anatomy of fear; 8. Toward a grand settlement; 9. Hegemony, consociationalism, democracy, or none of the above?; 10. Epilogue; References; Index.

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• Authors: Rene Lemarchand, Rene (University of Florida) Lemarchand, Reni Lemarchand, Lemarchand Rene
• Assisted by: Lee H. Hamilton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521566230
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56623-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Series; Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Burundi, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Africa / East, African History, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing