Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi [#434103]

Stacey M. Mitchell, "Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi "
English | ISBN: 1138579432 | 2018 | 234 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Rwanda and Burundi are strikingly similar countries that underwent democratization in the early 1990s. In both, resistance to democratic reforms led to coups d'état and presidential assassinations. A conundrum arises in terms of what transpires next. In Rwanda, total genocide was perpetrated by extremist Hutu actors, including government officials, upon the country's Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu populations. In Burundi the coup d'état failed and instead ushered in a lengthy period of civil war. This divergence in outcome is puzzling given the similarity of these two countries, and it is not adequately explained by studies that address collective violence in each.