- Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (USC Shoah Foundation)USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.
What can I find on the Rwandan Genocide?
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Databases can be searched individually or in publisher groupings: for example, ProQuest databases (marked below as PQ) can be searched concurrently.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Find International Relations, Political Science, and Foreign Affairs journal articles and sources. 1975+.
Find International Relations, Political Science, and Foreign Affairs journal articles and sources. 1975+. Example from this database: |
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Find sociology journal articles and sources. 1952+.
- Africa-Wide Information This link opens in a new window
Africa-Wide Information searches across bibliographic databases from around the world to provide citations and abstracts on all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations. Date coverage: 16th century - present. - African Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Provides free access to full text articles from over a hundred journals published in Africa. (Some titles are open access while others are abstract only or require registration and payment.) Subject areas covered include: agriculture, life sciences, medicine (AIDS, HIV) and the social sciences (education, politics, African international relations, anthropology and public health).
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window The PAIS International database covers current public policy issues and areas of potential legislation. Cited articles, books and documents can date back to 1910 and are listed in the original language. Approx. 1910+
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window Anthropology Plus provides worldwide coverage of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary fields. Date coverage: late 19th century - present.
Africa-Wide Information searches across bibliographic databases from around the world to provide citations and abstracts on all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations. Date coverage: 16th century - present.
Newspapers
- Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis/Nexis Academic)1980+
Text-only multidisciplinary database that includes current newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts. Date coverage and completeness varies by publication, but generally 1980+. see Search Tips for Uni
Text-only multidisciplinary database that includes current newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts. Date coverage and completeness varies by publication, but generally 1980+. see - ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full-page images with searchable full text from the following newspapers: Boston Globe; New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Defender. See listing for each individual newspaper for date coverage and to search that publication separately.
Full-page images with searchable full text from the following newspapers: Boston Globe; New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Defender. See listing for each individual newspaper for date coverage and to search that publication separately.- African Newspapers: RwandaOnline newspapers include
The African Studies Library, located on the 6th floor of Mugar Memorial Library, provides a unique opportunity for BU students and outside researchers to explore newspapers, government documents, books, and other materials about and from African countries.Guides to collections can be found on the ASL site.
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Books
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The BULS search rwanda AND genocide retrieves 377 books (as of Sept 2018); 125 have been published in the last 5 years. Using the bibliographies of recently published books can help you identify recent scholarship and primary source documents. |
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Rwanda's Popular Genocide : a Perfect Storm by Location:
Mugar Stacks DT450.435 .K5413 2016 Publication Date: 2014Why did Rwanda's rural Hutus participate so massively, and so personally, in the country's 1994 genocide of its Tutsi population? Given all that has been written already about this horrific episode, is there still more that can be learned? Answering these questions, Jean-Paul Kimonyo's social and economic history explores at the deepest level the role both of power relations among Rwanda's grassroots citizens, political parties, and the state and of socioeconomic factors vs. politically/socially constructed ethnicity.
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca courts : seeking justice after genocide by Location: EBSCOhostPublication Date: 2016After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert Ingelaere, based on his observation of two thousand gacaca trials, offers a comprehensive assessment of what these courts set out to do, how they worked, what they achieved, what they did not achieve, and how they affected Rwandan society.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Location:Mugar Stacks DT450.435 .G68 1998 Publication Date: 1998"This ... book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title."
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda by Location:Mugar Stacks JC599.R95 D47 1999Publication Date: 1999Using a vast variety of source documentation the researchers and author of this report for Human Rights Watch and the IFHR have compiled a comprehensive account, of over 700 pages, of the origins, evolution, and aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda.
Rwanda and the moral obligation of humanitarian intervention by Location: ProQuest Ebook CentralPublication Date: 2013Joshua James Kassner contends that the international community had a moral obligation to intervene and therefore unrolls a convincing argument for a significant reform of the normative framework governing international relations.
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Location: ProQuest Ebook CentralPublication Date: 2007The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide: local media fuelled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued what was happening. The book examines how local radio and print media were used as a tool of hate by encouraging neighbours to turn against each other. It also presents a critique of international media coverage of the cataclysmic events in Rwanda.
We Cannot Forget by Location: ProQuest Ebook Central,Publication Date: 2011During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide.
When Victims Become Killers by Location:Mugar Stacks DT450.435 .M35 2001Publication Date: 2001Rejecting easy explanations of the genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, one of Africa's best-known intellectuals situates the tragedy in its proper context. He coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. He finds answers in the nature of political identities generated during colonialism, in the failures of the nationalist revolution to transcend these identities, and in regional demographic and political currents that reach well beyond Rwanda.
Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Location: ElgarOnline (e-books)Publication Date: 2016The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a one-stop reference resource on this complex tribunal, established in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which closed its doors on 31 December 2015. This Companion provides an insightful account of the workings and legacy of the ICTR in the field of international criminal justice
U.S. Documents
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Covers abstracts and indexing for hearings, reports, documents and committee prints.
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- U.S. Department of State. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017 RwandaYearly reports back to 2011; older reports to 1999
- Genocide Documentation Project (National Security Archive)This engine searches the growing collection of primary-source documents the National Security Archive has published on this web site. New materials are added frequently. The listing is chronological.
Think Tanks/ Organizations (Archives)
- Genocide Archive Rwanda[A] "digital collection of items related to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, pre-genocide history and post-genocide reconstruction processes." Physical archive accessible at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
- Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (USC Shoah Foundation)USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.
- Rwanda Youth & Children's Testimonies"This collection contains 864 testimonies that were written in exercise books by students in Rwandan high schools between late 1999 and early 2000." From website.
- Foundation RwandaFoundation Rwanda's mission is to provide funding for secondary school for children born from rape during the 1994 genocide.
- United nations in RwandaSince the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, the United Nations (UN) has been a fundamental partner in the reconstruction of Rwanda. In 2008, Rwanda was selected with seven other countries to implement a new UN strategy, called “Delivering as One” or “One UN”. Currently 16 resident and eight non-resident agencies work in Rwanda.
- Baylor Institute for Oral History: Survivors of GenocideFourteen oral histories with survivors of the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda/Burundi, Bosnia, and Darfur.
IGOs/NGOs
- Amnesty Internationalsee also:
Amnesty International [microform], a major collection of published and unpublished research material. 1983+.
Mugar Microforms Rm JC571 .A44 (Index)
Amnesty International report. 1975/76+
An annual summary report of worldwide issues and Amnesty International’s response. Browse and search through the website or in the Reference collection at Mugar Reference X JC571 .A44a
- Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. This website provides breaking news and current project information of the organization including the campaign to ratify the International Criminal Court. Many publications by this organization are listed in BULSearch under “Human Rights Watch”.
see also Human Rights Watch World Reports 1989+ (including current year.)
- Foreign Policy in Focus – Human Rights A “think tank without walls” that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates. “Unlike traditional think tanks, FPIF is committed to advancing a citizen-based foreign policy agenda-one that is fundamentally rooted in citizen initiatives and movements.” (from the site)
- Treaty Bodies Database (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) While State reports and concluding observations constitute the core of the database, you will also find other full-text documents (Documents)and factual data (Reporting Status, Status of Ratification) concerning reporting process and ratification of the treaties, as well as information relating to the Committees. Well organized, can be sorted by country.
- Refworld (UNHCR)"Collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy papers, case law and other documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The documents have been carefully selected from - and with - UNHCR field offices, governments, international, regional and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and judicial bodies."
Photographs/ Media
- Frontline - Ghosts of Rwanda
FRONTLINE marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, the two-hour documentary offers groundbreaking, eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. - Gacaca: Living Together in Rwanda?
Mugar Krasker Film Collection 23535.VH
In 1994, decades of politically motivated ethnic scapegoating culminated in a wholesale slaughter of the Rwanda's Tutsi minority, along with many Hutu moderates. Vast numbers of ordinary citizens became killers. More than 800,000 lives were taken, and the country was left in a state of devastation. Under a new government, Rwanda is rebuilding its physical and administrative infrastructure, but its most difficult task is to address the emotional trauma, and to foster reconciliation between the Hutu and the Tutsi.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
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ARTSTOR Creator Mikkel Ostergaard Title Children who crossed over the border from Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands fled into DR Congo at the end of the Rwanda genocide. Date 1995 |
