This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analyzing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority. The author refutes the government's version of these events that places blame on the former colonial government and the church. He offers documentation that identifies the source of these massacres as occurring across a socially constructed fault-line that pitted the Hutu majority's use of ethnicity as an instrument for the achievement of majority rule in parliament against the Tutsi minority's use of ethnocide to gain hegemony. By analyzing the roots of ethnicity conflict, the author derives institutional and other formulae through which conflict among the primary groups in Burundi--and elsewhere--may be mitigated. Published in cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).
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"...[a] lucid political history of Burundi....Lemarchand, a French-born political scientist, has been tracking the conflicts between Hutus and Tutsis since 1960, two years before Rwanda and Burundi gained independence from Belgian colonial rule." New York Review of Books
"Few scholars of African politics approach their subject with the skill and subtelty of René Lemarchand, author of this seminal study of Burundi society and politics. Burundi is a classic Lemarchand study, containing as it does a remarkable blend of theoretical insight and massive amounts of rare empirical data. Lemarchand's skills as historiographer, social theorist, ethnographer and linguist, as well as Africanist par excellence, all shine through in this volume." Africa Today
"...this is an important book, both for those concerned with East and Central Africa, and for others looking at the wider question of ethnicity and its role in contemporary conflicts....highly illuminating, and helpful to those grappling with present-day realities in Burundi....will undoubtedly be regarded as a valuable contribution to academic debate on this subject....essential reading for Burundi-watchers, and of considerable interest to students of the 'Great Lakes' region in general." Development in Practice
"This skillful and timely study examines both the historical conflict and the meta-conflict--the different self-serving beliefs and explanations of conflict perpetuated by the competing groups in their public discourse." Gail Gerhart, Foreign Affairs
"This timely book is also well-written, extremely informative, and deeply engaged--both in the horrors of ethnocide and in the intellectual debates over its causes and patterns...Lemarchand's account is indispensable; for it makes this history--in all its complexity--clear without being simplistic, and accessible to a wide audience, as it deserves to be. In short, this book provides a basic tool for readers at all levels." Choice
"Few scholars of African politics approach their subject with the skill and subtelty of René Lemarchand, author of this seminal study of Burundi society and politics. Burundi is a classic Lemarchand study, containing as it does a remarkable blend of theoretical insight and massive amounts of rare empirical data. Lemarchand's skills as historiographer, social theorist, ethnographer and linguist, as well as Africanist par excellence, all shine through in this volume." Africa Today
"...this is an important book, both for those concerned with East and Central Africa, and for others looking at the wider question of ethnicity and its role in contemporary conflicts....highly illuminating, and helpful to those grappling with present-day realities in Burundi....will undoubtedly be regarded as a valuable contribution to academic debate on this subject....essential reading for Burundi-watchers, and of considerable interest to students of the 'Great Lakes' region in general." Development in Practice
"This skillful and timely study examines both the historical conflict and the meta-conflict--the different self-serving beliefs and explanations of conflict perpetuated by the competing groups in their public discourse." Gail Gerhart, Foreign Affairs
"This timely book is also well-written, extremely informative, and deeply engaged--both in the horrors of ethnocide and in the intellectual debates over its causes and patterns...Lemarchand's account is indispensable; for it makes this history--in all its complexity--clear without being simplistic, and accessible to a wide audience, as it deserves to be. In short, this book provides a basic tool for readers at all levels." Choice
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By analyzing the roots of ethnicity conflict, this text derives institutional and other formulae through which conflict among the primary groups in Burundi--and elsewhere--may be mitigated. Published in cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).
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A country of almost Lilliputian dimensions (27,834 square kilometers) and facing colossal difficulties at almost every level, Burundi is also a striking anomaly on a continent of artificially fashioned state systems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Second Republic, First Republic, Marc Manirakiza, National Assembly, Study the Question, Amnesty International, United Nations, Michel Micombero, Mwezi Gisabo, Paul Mirerekano, Pierre Buyoya, Third Republic, United States, World Bank, Melchior Ndadaye, James Scott, Joseph Gahama, Martin Ndayahoze, President Buyoya, White Fathers, Gervais Nyangoma, Gilles Bimazubute, Mwami Mwambutsa, New York Times, Pierre Ngendandumwe New!
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A country of almost Lilliputian dimensions (27,834 square kilometers) and facing colossal difficulties at almost every level, Burundi is also a striking anomaly on a continent of artificially fashioned state systems. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Second Republic, First Republic, Marc Manirakiza, National Assembly, Study the Question, Amnesty International, United Nations, Michel Micombero, Mwezi Gisabo, Paul Mirerekano, Pierre Buyoya, Third Republic, United States, World Bank, Melchior Ndadaye, James Scott, Joseph Gahama, Martin Ndayahoze, President Buyoya, White Fathers, Gervais Nyangoma, Gilles Bimazubute, Mwami Mwambutsa, New York Times, Pierre Ngendandumwe New!
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- Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies by Joseph V. Montville in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (vol. 3) by Antonio Gramsci on page 58, and Back Matter
- Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) by Samuel P. Huntington in Back Matter
- The Cambridge History of Africa (Volume 8) by Michael Crowder in Back Matter
- Political Oppositions in Western Democracies by Robert A. Dahl in Back Matter
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- Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict by David Callahan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power on page 15, and Back Matter
- Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy--A History from 1791 to the Present by Robert Edgerton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) by John Stone in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Skull Beneath The Skin: Africa After The Cold War by Mark Huband in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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