Books in the Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights series

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide. Through powerful stories readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide, how it erupted and was carried out, and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide.

Provides a rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. It explores political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones aEURO" a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation aEURO" to offer a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization.

A Rhetorical Crime shows how, over the course of the Cold War era, genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in international propaganda battles. Through a unique comparative analysis of U.S. and Soviet statements on genocide, Weiss-Wendt investigates why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.

Provides a rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. It explores political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones - a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation - to offer a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization.

Explores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research.