LEADER 04395nam 22006375 450 001 9910452792503321 005 20210707115038.0 010 $a0-8014-6714-4 010 $a0-8014-6715-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467158 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038577 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10649614 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870536 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11543140 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870536 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819230 035 $a(PQKB)11726259 035 $a(DE-B1597)515853 035 $a(OCoLC)1083627226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138422 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038577 100 $a20190920d2013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Order of Genocide $eRace, Power, and War in Rwanda /$fScott Straus 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$d©2013 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50469-5 311 $a0-8014-7492-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Background to the Genocide --$t2. Genocide at the National and Regional Levels --$t3. Local Dynamics --$t4. The Génocidaires --$t5. Why Perpetrators Say They Committed Genocide --$t6. The Logic of Genocide --$t7. Historical Patterns of Violence --$t8. Rwanda's Leviathan --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tIndex 330 $aThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did individuals make decisions that led them to take up machetes against their neighbors? And what was the logic that drove the campaign of extermination?According to Scott Straus, a social scientist and former journalist in East Africa for several years (who received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting for the Houston Chronicle), many of the widely held beliefs about the causes and course of genocide in Rwanda are incomplete. They focus largely on the actions of the ruling elite or the inaction of the international community. Considerably less is known about how and why elite decisions became widespread exterminatory violence.Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research-including the most comprehensive surveys yet undertaken among convicted perpetrators-to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Current interpretations stress three main causes for the genocide: ethnic identity, ideology, and mass-media indoctrination (in particular the influence of hate radio). Straus's research does not deny the importance of ethnicity, but he finds that it operated more as a background condition. Instead, Straus emphasizes fear and intra-ethnic intimidation as the primary drivers of the violence. A defensive civil war and the assassination of a president created a feeling of acute insecurity. Rwanda's unusually effective state was also central, as was the country's geography and population density, which limited the number of exit options for both victims and perpetrators.In conclusion, Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history-the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans-and assessing the future likelihood of such events. 606 $aHISTORY$2bisac 606 $aAfrica / Central$2bisac 606 $aGenocide$zRwanda 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aRegions & Countries - Africa$2HILCC 615 7$aHISTORY 615 7$aAfrica / Central 615 0$aGenocide 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Africa 676 $a967.57104/31 686 $aMI 55096$2rvk 700 $aStraus$b Scott$0790631 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452792503321 996 $aThe Order of Genocide$92485207 997 $aUNINA