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In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives behind and specific contexts surrounding the Rwandan genocide, the author focuses on individual actions ...

Oorspr. uitg.: Boston [etc.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. XX, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Met literatuuropgave.

Includes bibliographical references. 347 pages : maps ; 24 cm

South Africa has succeeded in establishing a democracy, but has yet to eliminate public violence from society. This book takes up the issue of post-settlement violence and ways of consolidating the newly-found democratic peace. The role of negotiated institutions such as the new police force, economic factors relevant to the anticipated "peace dividend," external factors such as arms smuggling networks, ...

Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus. ...

At head of title: Paul Schmitz-Kairo. 51 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"Written by Linda Kirschke, Africa Programme researcher at Article 19. xii, 180 pages ; 23 cm

"Most of the chapters of this volume come from a larger collection of papers produced for a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of the Research Programme 'Poverty and Prosperity in Africa: Local and Global Perspectives' at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden"--Preface. x, 261 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm

Cover title. iii, 55 pages : maps ; 28 cm.