Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the by Laura Eramian

By Laura Eramian

Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are nonetheless bothered via what made the violence attainable and the way they could understand it won't recur. This learn uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and glossy nationhood crisis not just political reform or fiscal improvement, but in addition modifications of the self. The aspiration to develop into "peaceful selves" unearths expression in cultural principles and daily practices, in kingdom and renowned rhetoric. even if, the query of what sort of individual one needs to be is fraught with contradictions and increases tough questions about the character of post-genocide belonging and the ethical order.

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