The protective function of personal growth initiative among a genocide-affected population in Rwanda.

Blackie, Laura E.R. and Jayawickreme, Eranda and Forgeard, Marie, J.C. and Jayawickreme, Nuwan (2015) The protective function of personal growth initiative among a genocide-affected population in Rwanda

The Order of Genocide : The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda

To begin, I’d like to describe the origins of the research project that ultimately became The Order of Genocide. I first traveled to Rwanda as a journalist in the mid-1990s, and, during my travels there and in what was then Zaire, I became deeply interested in the dynamics that ultimately led to the 1994 genocide. From my perspective as a journalist traveling in the region, the genocide was an ...

Theories of Genocide: The Case of Rwanda

After reviewing and modifying slightly the fourth dimension of James Waller’s general explanatory theory of genocide, the chapter takes issue with the first of the four dimensions of that theory and offers an alternative theory of dispositions that apply to bystanders as well as perpetrators. The chapter then critically reviews a number of specific explanations of the Rwanda genocide, dividing ...

Explaining the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Any adequate account of the  genocide in Rwanda must acknowledge manipulation by external forces, domestic pressures and psychological factors. Even so, the nature of the Rwandan state must be seen as absolutely central. The genocide took place under the aegis of the state, and Rwandans were the main actors involved. Both precolonial legacies and colonial policies contributed to the formati...

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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