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"Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research - including the most comprehensive surveys yet undertaken among convicted perpetrators - to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Current interpretations stress three main causes for the genocide: ethnic identity, ideology, and mass-media indoctrination (in particular the influence of hate radio). Straus's research does not deny the importance of ethnicity, but he finds that it operated more as a background condition. Instead, Straus emphasizes fear and intra-ethnic intimidation as the primary drivers of the violence. A defensive civil war and the assassination of a president created a feeling of acute insecurity. Rwanda's unusually effective state was also central, as was the country's geography and population density, which limited the number of exit options for both victims and perpetrators. In conclusion, Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history -- the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans -- and assessing the future likelihood of such events."--Jacket

Background to the genocide -- Genocide at the national and regional levels -- Local dynamics -- The génocidaires -- Why perpetrators say they committed genocide -- The logic of genocide -- Historical patterns of violence -- Rwanda's leviathan

"The challenge of teaching international studies is to help students think coherently about the multiple causes and effects of global problems. In International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions, award-winning scholars Scott Straus and Barry Driscoll walk students through the foundations of the course; the major actors, institutions and theories; and finally the contemporary problems that will matter most to students. The authors give students a clear framework that pinpoints how key factors-forces, interactions, and tensions-contribute to world events and global problems like human rights abuses, economic inequality, pandemic and global health responses, and food security. The book raises the bar for the Introduction to International Studies course and is relevant to students studying geography, sociology, political science, and anthropology"--

In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country's new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda's politics, economy, and society, and the country's accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. 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. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, Remaking Rwanda 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.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Embracing Paradox: Human Rights in the Global Age - Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who Makes Human Rights? -- 1. Human Rights History from the Ground Up: The Case of East Timor - Geoffrey Robinson -- 2. Rights on Display: Museums and Human Rights Claims - Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- 3. Civilian Agency in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Burundi - Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating Classic Concepts -- 4. Consulting Survivors: Evidence from Cambodia, Northern Uganda, and Other Countries Affected by Mass Violence - Patrick Vinck and Phuong N. Pham -- 5. "Memoria, Verdad y Justicia": The Terrain of Post-Dictatorship Social Reconstruction and the Struggle for Human Rights in Argentina - Noa Vaisman -- 6. The Paradoxes of Accountability: Transitional Justice in Peru - Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New Horizons -- 7. The Aporias of New Technologies for Human Rights Activism - Fuyuki Kurasawa -- 8. The Human Right to Water in Rural India: Promises and Challenges - Philippe Cullet -- 9. A Very Promising Species: From Hobbes to the Human Right to Water - Richard P. Hiskes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty-eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China, from the Holocaust to Stalin's Ukraine, from Indonesia to Guatemala, Biafra, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq.