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On the Path to Genocide - Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

English · Hardback

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First book to focus predominantly on the issue of the timing of genocide.


Presents a full history of the long-term and intervening factors that led to the Armenian and Rwandan genocides.


Explores pre-genocidal massacres in Ottoman Armenia and Rwanda.


Explores constraints that inhibit the risk of genocide.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: 'The Symptoms of an Explosive Situation': The Temporal Model of Genocide

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Chapter 1.'Trying Desperately to Escape History': The Armenian Question

Chapter 2. 'A Settled Plan to Slowly Exterminate': The Hamidian Massacres

Chapter 3. 'They will have to be Destroyed': From Massacre to Genocide

THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE

Chapter 4. 'A European under Black Skin': Pre-colonial and Colonial Rwanda

Chapter 5. 'A Massive Rejection of the Tutsi as Fellow Nationals': Race, Violence and Independence

Chapter 6. 'A Cockroach gives birth to another Cockroach': From Coexistence to Extermination

THE PATH TO GENOCIDE

Chapter 7. 'Driven by Ethnic Exclusivism': On the Timing of Genocide

Chapter 8. 'Our only Hope, therefore, rests on the Obstacle': Constraints Against Genocide

Chapter 9. 'A Pattern ... Repeated Numerous Times': The Wider Applicability of the Temporal Model

Conclusion: 'We are all Brothers': The Temporal Model and Genocide Prevention

Bibliography

Index


About the author


Deborah Mayersen is an historian, based at the University of Wollongong, Australia.  Her research expertise is in comparative genocide studies, including the Armenian genocide, Rwandan genocide and genocide prevention.  Her recent publications include the edited volumes The United Nations and Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (with Annie Pohlman, Routledge, 2013).

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