{"id":378851,"date":"2011-04-12T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/12\/remaking-rwanda-state-building-and-human-rights-after-mass-violence\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:58:55","slug":"remaking-rwanda-state-building-and-human-rights-after-mass-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/12\/remaking-rwanda-state-building-and-human-rights-after-mass-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking Rwanda State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79.015749778172\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Wisconsin Press<\/a> (Madison,\u00a0WI)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>12 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>book listing<\/p>\n<p>The first comprehensive critique of state reconstruction, peace-building, and human rights in post-genocide Rwanda<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rich array of careful scholarship provides a valuable, multifaceted view of a country still struggling with the aftereffects of genocide and civil war. It offers an important corrective to the naively rosy picture of Rwanda that too often prevails in the American media.\u201d\u2014Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold\u2019s Ghost<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country\u2019s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda\u2019s politics, economy, and society, and the country\u2019s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda\u2019s 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\u2019s reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_b div ---><\/p>\n<p>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\u2014one that reveals powerful continuities with the nation\u2019s past and raises profound questions about its future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemaking Rwanda is an ambitious book, a rich and varied compilation that demonstrates the full complement of approaches, methods, and concerns informing the study of post-genocide Rwanda.\u201d \u2014Lee Ann Fujii, author of Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An important contribution to scholarship both on Rwanda and on human rights. Many of the chapters, by leading and emergent Rwanda scholars, directly challenge received wisdom about governance in post-conflict-states, and raise serious questions about the impact of a range of transitional justice measures on longer-term peacebuilding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Chandra Lekha Sriram, author of Peace as Governance: Power-Sharing, Armed Groups and Contemporary Peace Negotiations<\/p>\n<p>Scott Straus is associate professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Lars Waldorf, senior lecturer in international human rights law at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, is coeditor of Localizing Transitional Justice and Disarming the Past: Transitional Justice and Ex-Combatants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104121147.html\" title=\"Remaking Rwanda State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remaking Rwanda State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> University of Wisconsin Press (Madison,\u00a0WI) 12 April 2011 book listing The first comprehensive critique of state reconstruction, peace-building, and human rights in post-genocide Rwanda \u201cThis rich array of careful scholarship provides a valuable, multifaceted view of a country still struggling with the aftereffects of genocide and civil war. 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