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Title: Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda by Peter Uvin ISBN: 1-56549-083-5 Publisher: Kumarian Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Summary: Was the development industry complicit?
Comment: Uvin's argument is not that aid workers in Rwanda participated in the genocide of 1994, nor even that they were accomplices in it. Rather, "AIDING VIOLENCE" contends that the development business--by the very nature of its mission--contributed to a state of severe inequity and "structural violence" that over many decades had made Rwanda fertile ground for widespread ethnic hatred leading to massive bloodshed.
It is the apolitical nature of aid, the author tells us, that plays into the hands of the killers and their ringleaders. The book is reminiscent of Ferguson's "ANTI-POLITICS MACHINE" in this way. Where Uvin's contribution is greatest is his ability to situate this discussion about the ramifications of "development" in the Rwandan context, with ample documentary support for his conclusions. He also isn't so naive as to think that the Rwandan genocide was somehow foisted on a passive population by an overpoweringly evil elite. Sure, they were evil, but the hundreds of thousands of Rwandans who took part in the violence had more reason to do so than simply because their leaders told them to.
This book will likely give you some serious doubts about the entire concept of development and just what it means anyway in a world rife with turmoil, inequality and discrimination. And that is precisely what Uvin intended it to do.
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Title: Anticipating Ethnic Conflict (MR-853) by Ashley J. Tellis, Thomas S. Szayna, James A. Winnefeld, Arroyo Center ISBN: 0833024957 Publisher: Rand Corporation (NBN) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Making Them Like Us by Fritz Fischer ISBN: 1560986719 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520235509 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development Ngos by Marc Lindenberg, Coralie Bryant ISBN: 1565491351 Publisher: Kumarian Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Condemned to Repeat?: The Paradox of Humanitarian Action by Fiona Terry ISBN: 080148796X Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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