Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
By
Rene Lemarchand (Author)
Paperback
Available / dispatched within 1 - 2 weeks
Quantity
Description
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. The author refutes the government's version of these events that places blame on the former colonial government and the church. He offers documentation that identifies the source of these massacres as occurring across a socially constructed fault-line that pitted the Hutu majority's use of ethnicity as an instrument for the achievement of majority rule in parliament against the Tutsi minority's use of ethnocide to gain hegemony. By analysing the roots of ethnicity conflict, the author derives institutional and other formulae through which conflict among the primary groups in Burundi - and elsewhere - may be mitigated. Published in cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Worked examples or Exercises
More Details
- Contributor: Rene Lemarchand
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521566230
- Number of Pages: 248
- Packaged Dimensions: 154x229x15mm
- Packaged Weight: 393
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 1996-01-26
- Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
- Binding: Paperback / softback
Delivery Options
Home Delivery
Store Delivery
Free Returns
We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.