Reassembling Rwanda
6 March 2013 Reassembling Rwanda PDF (pdf; 366kb)
State building, conflict transformation, and unintended consequences
Editors: Pritish Behuria (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) & Peer Schouten (School of Global Studies/University of Gothenburg)
Introduction
Rwanda has long been one of Africa’s ‘aid darlings’, both a favorite for Western donors because of historical guilt and because the Rwandan government has displayed a significant commitment to utilizing aid towards development initiatives, as highlighted by the strides made towards their attainment of a number of Millennium Development Goals. Central to the external presentation of the Rwandan government’s development efforts to reassemble Rwanda is the idea that state building in Rwanda can be effectuated ‘top down’—with Singapore serving as an obvious model. Recent events are increasingly bringing to the fore underlying tensions that are not borne out by formal government efforts, challenging not only stability in Rwanda but also broader prevailing assumptions regarding the development model adhered to.
Aim of the volume
This edited volume aims to shed light on the developmental challenges that face contemporary Rwanda by bringing together a wide range of in-depth qualitative case studies that each articulate the tension between top-down state building, development policies, or conflict transformation on the one hand, and a broader range of unintended consequences of these same policies on the other.
For further details see the attached poster.
For further information, contact:
Pritish Behuria: 248034@soas.ac.uk
