Data on Rwanda 1994 
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Omar Shahabudin McDoom - Antisocial Capital: A Profile of Rwandan Genocide Perpetrators’ Social Networks (2014)

Although popularly perceived as a positive force important for objectives such as economic development and democracy, social capital may also be linked to less desirable outcomes. This article highlights a dark side to social capital by pointing to its role in a particularly pernicious phenomenon: genocidal violence. Drawing on a survey of residents from one community that experienced violence during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, I show that individual participation in the violence was partly determined by the features of residents' social networks. Perpetrators possessed larger networks in general and more connections to other perpetrators in particular. The quality as well as quantity of connections also mattered. Strong ties generally, and kinship and neighborly ties specifically, were strong predictors of participation. In contrast, possession of countervailing ties to nonparticipants did not reduce a resident's likelihood of participation. Drawing on in-depth interviews to explore the possible mechanisms behind these findings, I suggest participants' networks fulfilled functions of information diffusion, social influence, and behavioral regulation. More broadly, the findings suggest the importance of social structure and social interaction for participation in collective violence. Relational data should complement individual attribute data in predicting participation. The findings also suggest, contrary to the neo-Malthusian interpretation, that the role played by Rwanda's extraordinarily high population density in the violence may have been more sociological than ecological in origin. The diffusion, influence, and regulatory effects of social connections are likely to be amplified in communities where individuals live in close spatial proximity to each other.

Omar Shahabudin McDoom: Who killed in Rwanda’s genocide? Micro-space, social influence and individual participation in intergroup violence (2013)

In episodes of intergroup violence, which group members participate and which do not? Although such violence is frequently framed as occurring between distinct ethnic, racial or sectarian groups, it is easily overlooked that it is usually only a subset of the group’s members who in fact participate in the violence. In predicting participation, extant research has privileged an atomistic approach and identified individual attributes indicative of a predisposition to violence. I suggest instead that a situational approach should complement the atomistic paradigm and present evidence that an individual’s micro-spatial environment is an important predictor of differential participation in intergroup violence. Using GIS data on 3,426 residents from one community, I map the household locations of participants, non-participants, and victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. I find that participants are likely to live either in the same neighbourhood or in the same household as other participants. Specifically, as the number of violent to nonviolent individuals in an individual’s neighbourhood or household increases, the likelihood of this individual’s participation also increases. In explaining these neighbourhood and household effects, I suggest social influence is the mechanism at work. As micro-spatial distance decreases, micro-social interaction increases. Neighbours and household members exert influence for and against participation. Participation then may be as much the product of social interaction as of individual agency. What neighbours and family members think, say and do may influence participation in collective action such as intergroup violence. The conceptualization of neighbourhoods and households as micro-spheres of influences suggests the importance of social structure as a determinant of participation.

Marijke Verpoorten: Leave none to claim the land: A Malthusian catastrophe in Rwanda? (2013)

More than 200 years after its first publication, the Malthusian thesis is still much debated, albeit in a modified form. Rather than predicting a global catastrophe, most neo-Malthusians stress the local character of the relationship between population pressure, natural resource scarcity, and conflict as well as its dependency on the socio-political and economic context. This softened version of Malthus’s thesis has received little empirical support in cross-country studies. In contrast, a number of subnational analyses have provided some evidence for local conditional Malthusian catastrophes, although ‘catastrophe’ is a big word since these studies have largely focused on low-intensity violence. This article adds to the small body of subnational studies, but focuses on a high-intensity conflict – the Rwandan genocide. In particular, it provides a meso-level analysis of the relation between population pressure and the intensity of violence measured by the death toll among the Tutsi across 1,294 small administrative units. The results indicate that the death toll was significantly higher in localities with both high population density and little opportunity for young men to acquire land. This finding can be interpreted as support for the neo-Malthusian thesis. On the other hand, it is possible that another mechanism operated – in densely populated areas, it may have been relatively easy for the elite to mobilize the population, because of dependency relations through the land and labor market. Alternatively, in densely populated areas, there may have been more lootable assets, and the violence may have been opportunistic rather than driven by need or by fear.

Karen Brounéus - The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health (2010)

Truth telling has come to play a pivotal role in postconflict reconciliation processes around the world. A common claim is that truth telling is healing and will lead to reconciliation. The present study applies recent psychological research to this issue by examining whether witnessing in the gacaca, the Rwandan village tribunals for truth and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide, was beneficial for psychological health. The results from the multistage, stratified cluster random survey of 1,200 Rwandans demonstrate that gacaca witnesses suffer from higher levels of depression and PTSD than do nonwitnesses, also when controlling for important predictors of psychological ill health. Furthermore, longer exposure to truth telling has not lowered the levels of psychological ill health, nor has the prevalence of depression and PTSD decreased over time. This study strongly challenges the claim that truth telling is healing and presents a novel understanding of the complexity of truth-telling processes in postconflict peace building.

Ravi Bhavnani – Ethnic Norms and Interethnic Violence: Accounting for Mass Participation in the Rwandan Genocide (2006)

This article specifies a simple mechanism - a behavioral norm defined in ethnic terms - to understand the dynamics of mass participation by reluctant Hutu in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The mechanism, which has not been analyzed systematically in the scholarly literature, is specified using an agent-based model of within-group interaction that captures the role of intra-Hutu coercion in precipitating genocidal violence, yet is general enough to be applied to other group conflicts and contexts. The model highlights the role of individual heterogeneity, within-group punishment, behavioral adaptation, group networks, and ethnic entrepreneurs, and generates a set of results on norm formation and change, a number of which are not intuitive. These findings suggest that (1) norms are not equally likely to form in groups with similar aggregate preference; (2) a violence-promoting norm can emerge in a group dominated by moderates, and violence is not the inevitable outcome in a group dominated by extremists; (3) strong punishments are a prerequisite for the emergence of norms that promote interethnic violence or cooperation; (4) interaction patterns matter - for example, the segregation of an ethnic group clearly inhibits norm formation; and (5) an ethnic entrepreneur can effectively amplify norm formation within a group in the absence of strong punishment.

Philip Verwimp – Machetes and Firearms: The Organization of Massacres in Rwanda (2006)

This article is a quantitative study of the use of machetes and firearms during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Kibuye Prefecture. The machete is an agricultural tool owned by most Rwandan households and is believed to have been the prime instrument of killing during the genocide. The article addresses the question to what extent individual characteristics of victims (gender, age, occupation) and aspects of the Rwandan genocide (location of atrocities, point in time during the genocide) determined the perpetrators’ use of modern rather than traditional weapons to kill individual victims. An original database developed by the organization of the survivors of the genocide (IBUKA) is used. The data were collected from 1996 to 1999 and contain information on the deaths of 59,050 victims. Logistical regression analysis is performed to explain the use of either a traditional weapon or a firearm to kill the victims. The analysis shows that the probability of being killed with a firearm depended on the location where the victim was killed (more particularly, on whether or not the victim was killed in a large-scale massacre); on the commune of residence and the age of the victim; on the number of days after 6 April the victim was killed; and on interaction effects between the latter two variables and the gender of the victim. The importance of individual characteristics, location of atrocities and timing for the use of different kinds of weapons adds to our understanding of the organized nature of the Rwandan genocide.

Marijke Verpooten - The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province (2005)

Though counting the number of victims of a genocide is a historical and political necessity, it is always an extremely hazardous exercise. Regarding the Rwandan genocide of 1994, none of the estimates produced until now were based on records held by the communes. Focusing on Gikongoro Prefecture, Marijke Verpoorten not only evaluates the number and the profile of genocide victims, but also describes the geographical pattern of killings. This difficult assessment is based on local population registers and census data and applies a rigorous approach which starts with a detailed analysis of the data sources. It confirms the highest death toll estimates.

Philip Verwimp - Testing the Double-Genocide Thesis for Central and Southern Rwanda (2003)

Results of a research project with household-level data on the demographic impact of genocide and civil war in Rwanda are reported. The survey includes demographic and criminological data on 352 peasant households that were part of a large household survey project before the genocide. The absolute number of Hutu killed in the sample is half of the number of Tutsi killed. The statistical and econometric results show that the killing pattern among Hutu and Tutsi was different; Tutsi members of the same household were often killed on the same day and in the same place. The effect of the arrival of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) at the survey sites on the survival chances of Hutu and Tutsi is estimated.

General 

100 Days of Slaughter. 

The 800,000 Project 

Aegis Trust (genocide prevention trust) 

Amnesty International Online Documentation Archive: Rwanda

BBC News In Depth - Rwanda genocide 10 year anniversary

BBC News Panorama - When Good Men Do Nothing

BBC Witness: Stench of Blood 

Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza

Evidence of Inaction: A National Security Archive Briefing Book. by William Ferroggiaro. 

Friends of Evil: When NGOs, Lawyers and Pseudo-Academics Support Genocidaires (scroll down to Rwanda-related topics)

From idealism to genocide

Frontline Ghost of Rwanda by PBS.org

Genocide in Rwanda, 1994.  

Genocide Archive Rwanda

Hirondelle News Agency - ICTR/Rwanda

How the Genocide Happened by BBC.com

Institute for the Study of Genocide/International Association of Genocide Scholars

"Intended Consequences" by Jonathan Torgovnik

Interactive Guide: Rwanda - Remembering the Genocide by The Guardian

The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience by the Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda. 

Kigali Memorial Centre

"Leave None to Tell the Story" by Human Rights Watch

Rwandan Genocide Background 

Through My Eyes (Website) 

Massacre at Nyarubuye Church by BBC

The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson

Official Website of the Government of Rwanda

Prevent Genocide International - Resources on Rwanda

Remembering Rwanda and Defending Darfur: A Film Screening Guide (pdf file) by Africa Action 

Rwandapedia (documents, images, audio) - interestingly this was taken down by the Rwanda and Communication Technology Association shortly after i posted it but luckily the wayback machine still makes many of the documents available.  click here

Rwandan civil war - Wikipedia

Rwandan civil war from google scholar

Rwanda Genocide Project at Yale University 

Rwandan Genocide from Google Scholar

Rwandan Overview  by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rwandan political violence from Google Scholar

Rwanda: The State of Research by Rene Lemarchand

Survivors Fund 

Taken Over by Satan by BBC

The Triumph of Evil by PBS.org

United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

UN Reflection on the Rwandan Genocide 2004

“The US and the Genocide in Rwanda” by National Security Archive