Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda - Couverture souple

Uvin, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1565490835 ISBN 13 : 9781565490833

Editeur : Kumarian Press, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of the African Studies Association's 1999 Herskovits Award A boldly critical look at structural violence relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of massive genocide in a country considered by Western aid agencies to be a model of development. Focusing on the 1990s dynamics of militarization and polarization that resulted in genocide, Uvin reveals how aid enterprises reacted, or failed to react, to those dynamics. By outlining the profound structural basis on which the genocidal edifice was built, the book exposes practices of inequality, exclusion, and humiliation throughout Rwanda.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Uvin is the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He received his doctorate in international relations from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva. He has been a Research Associate Professor at the Watson Institute of International Affairs, Brown University, and has taught at New Hampshire College and the Graduate School of Development Studies, Geneva. For the last 20 years, he has worked periodically in Africa as a development practitioner and consultant, recently collaborating with UNDP, the OECD, and Belgian, Dutch, Danish, and British bilateral agencies. His book, Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda, won the 1999 African Studies Association Herskovits Award for the most outstanding book on Africa.

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Peter Uvin explores the dramatic contradiction inherent in the existence of massive genocide in a country that was considered by western aid agencies to be a model of development. The first part of this groundbreaking work focuses on the 1990s and the dynamics of militarization and polarization that directly led to genocide. Uvin studies how the aid enterprise reacted or failed to react to those dynamics. The second part of the book deals with the profound, long-term structural basis upon which the genocidal edifice was built. The processes of inequality, exclusion and humiliation that have characterized social and economic life in Rwanda are considered and questions are raised about how development aid ignored and reinforced these characteristics of structural violence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kumarian Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1565490835
• ISBN 13: 9781565490833
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 275
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible