The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century)

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Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a reasonably mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the website of probably the most world’s bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium’s Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring countries. When these conflicts lead to horrors such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, ethnic difference and postcolonial legacies are recurrently blamed, but, with such a lot at stake, such simple explanations cannot take the place of detailed, dispassionate analysis.

The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa provides a thorough exploration of the up to date crises in the region. By specializing in the historical and social forces in the back of the cycles of bloodshed in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, René Lemarchand challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the roots of civil strife in former Belgian Africa. He offers telling insights into the appalling cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent at the continent, and he sheds new light at the dynamics of conflict in the region.

Building on a full career of scholarship and fieldwork, Lemarchand’s analysis breaks new ground in our understanding of the complex historical forces that continue to shape the destinies of one in every of Africa’s most important regions.

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