Marijke Verpoorten
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012812
- eISBN:
- 9780262255387
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012812.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
This chapter examines the economic consequences of the violent conflict in Rwanda using household data. It analyzes the economic response of Rwandan households to the genocide that took place along ...
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This chapter examines the economic consequences of the violent conflict in Rwanda using household data. It analyzes the economic response of Rwandan households to the genocide that took place along Tutsi and Hutu fault lines in 1994. The analysis reveals that the material impact of the genocide was devastating in the short run but its impact on surviving households was not significant. This chapter also highlights the importance of livestock which served as the best stores of wealth during the genocide and as a prime means for smoothing consumption over time.Less
This chapter examines the economic consequences of the violent conflict in Rwanda using household data. It analyzes the economic response of Rwandan households to the genocide that took place along Tutsi and Hutu fault lines in 1994. The analysis reveals that the material impact of the genocide was devastating in the short run but its impact on surviving households was not significant. This chapter also highlights the importance of livestock which served as the best stores of wealth during the genocide and as a prime means for smoothing consumption over time.
Sara Meger
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190277666
- eISBN:
- 9780190277680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190277666.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter surveys the conceptualization of rape and other forms of sexual violence as an element of genocide. Sexual violence is a common in the context of genocide for two reasons: first, ...
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This chapter surveys the conceptualization of rape and other forms of sexual violence as an element of genocide. Sexual violence is a common in the context of genocide for two reasons: first, ethnicallydivided conflicts frequently develop the environment for extreme forms of political violence; secondly, in these extreme contexts the formation of the legal status of rape as a tool of occurred, particularly through the international legal response to the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. After surveying the development of the concept of “sexual violence as a tool of genocide,” this chapter explores how this concept of wartime sexual violence has enabled the elevation of concern for gender-based political violence perpetrated in the context of armed conflict, before questioning the extent to which this concern has resulted in a selective securitization of wartime sexual violence and the construction of a hierarchy of atrocities that limits the international community to respond to all forms of wartime sexual violence.Less
This chapter surveys the conceptualization of rape and other forms of sexual violence as an element of genocide. Sexual violence is a common in the context of genocide for two reasons: first, ethnicallydivided conflicts frequently develop the environment for extreme forms of political violence; secondly, in these extreme contexts the formation of the legal status of rape as a tool of occurred, particularly through the international legal response to the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. After surveying the development of the concept of “sexual violence as a tool of genocide,” this chapter explores how this concept of wartime sexual violence has enabled the elevation of concern for gender-based political violence perpetrated in the context of armed conflict, before questioning the extent to which this concern has resulted in a selective securitization of wartime sexual violence and the construction of a hierarchy of atrocities that limits the international community to respond to all forms of wartime sexual violence.
