LEADER 03478nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910454524803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84964-489-6 010 $a1-281-72534-X 010 $a9786611725341 010 $a1-4356-6115-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533552 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933777 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096543 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11121589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096543 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081995 035 $a(PQKB)10795606 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386351 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10479888 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172534 035 $a(OCoLC)626622827 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533552 100 $a20030813d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAccounting for horror$b[electronic resource] $epost-genocide debates in Rwanda /$fNigel Eltringham 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-2000-7 311 $a0-7453-2001-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 198-221) and index. 327 $a'Ethnicity' : the permeant debate -- The pre-cursor debate -- The holocaust : the comparative debate -- Debating collective guilt -- Unresolved allegations and the culture of impunity. 330 $bThe 1994 Rwandan genocide was a monumental atrocity in which at least 500,000 Tutsi and tens of thousands of Hutu were murdered in less than four months. Since 1994, members of the Rwandan political class who recognise those events as genocide have struggled to account for it and bring coherence to what is often perceived as irrational, primordial savagery.Most people agree on the factors that contributed to the genocide -- colonialism, ethnicity, the struggle to control the state. However, many still disagree over the way these factors evolved, and the relationship between them. This continuing disagreemnt raises questions about how we come to understand historical events -- understandings that underpin the possibility of sustainable peace.Drawing on extensive research among Rwandese in Rwanda and Europe, and on his work with a conflict resolution NGO in post-genocide Rwanda, Nigel Eltringham argues that conventional modes of historical representation are inadequate in a case like Rwanda. Single, absolutist narratives and representations of genocide actually reinforce the modes of thinking that fuelled the genocide in the first place. Eltringham maintains that if we are to understand the genocide, we must explore the relationship between multiple explanations of what happened and interrogate how -- and why -- different groups within Rwandan society talk about the genocide in different ways. 606 $aGenocide$zRwanda 606 $aTutsi (African people)$xCrimes against$zRwanda 607 $aRwanda$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994$xAtrocities 607 $aRwanda$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGenocide 615 0$aTutsi (African people)$xCrimes against 676 $a967.57104/31 700 $aEltringham$b Nigel$0948671 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454524803321 996 $aAccounting for horror$92144381 997 $aUNINA