Publication
Title
Constructing the truth, dealing with dissent, domesticating the world : governance in post-genocide Rwanda
Author
Abstract
Post-genocide Rwanda has become a 'donor darling', despite being a dictatorship with a dismal human rights record and a source of regional instability. In order to understand international tolerance, this article studies the regime's practices. It analyses the ways in which it dealt with external and internal critical voices, the instruments and strategies it devised to silence them, and its information management. It looks into the way the international community fell prey to the RPF's spin by allowing itself to be manipulated, focusing on Rwanda's decent technocratic governance while ignoring its deeply flawed political governance. This tolerance has allowed the development of a considerable degree of structural violence, thus exposing Rwanda to the risk of renewed violence
Language
English
Source (journal)
African affairs / Royal African Society [London] - London, 1944, currens
Publication
London : 2011
ISSN
0001-9909
DOI
10.1093/AFRAF/ADQ075
Volume/pages
110 :438 (2011) , p. 1-34
ISI
000285628400001
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Empowering the poor or protecting the powerful? Externally induced reforms and agency of local actors. A case-study on land dynamics in Rwanda and Burundi.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 07.01.2011
Last edited 04.03.2024
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