Remaking Rwanda

In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the countryrs"s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwandars"s politics, economy, and society, and the countryrs"s accomplishments have garnered widespread praise.Remaking Rwandais the first book to examine Rwandars"s remarkable post-genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying close attention to memory politics, human rights, justice, foreign relations, land use, education, and other key social institutions and practices, this volume raises serious concerns about the depth and durability of the countryrs"s reconstruction. Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf,Remaking Rwandabrings together experienced scholars and human rights professionals to offer a nuanced, historically informed picture of post-genocide Rwanda-one that reveals powerful continuities with the nationrs"s past and raises profound questions about its future.

Scott Straus is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Lars Waldorf is senior lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York, UK) and coeditor of Localizing Transitional Justice.