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1. Books

Legal Research and Writing Manual for the Faculty of Law, National University of Rwanda, Butare: National University of Rwanda Press, 2003, 197pp.

Under Review

Resisting Reconciliation: State Power and Everyday Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda.

In Progress

Field Research in the Great Lakes Region: The Story Behind the Findings. Co-edited book with An Ansoms (Antwerp) and Jude Murison (Edinburgh).

 

2. Articles

“Local Power Relations and Household Gender Dynamics: Assessing Rwanda’s claim to Universal HIV/AIDS Treatment in Context”. Canadian Journal of African Studies, forthcoming 2010.

Ethnic Twa and Rwandan National Unity and Reconciliation Policy. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 21(3), July 2009, pp. 313-320.

Under Review

“The Challenges of Field Research in Post-Conflict Environments: Lessons from Post-Genocide Rwanda”.

“Law, Power and Justice: Local Dynamics in Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and Blind Spots in the Transitional Justice Paradigm (with Rosemary Nagy).

“Everyday Resistance to the Programme of National Unity and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda”.

In Progress

"Taming the Volcano: Elite Projections of Benevolent Leadership in Pre- and Post-Genocide Rwanda" (with Marie-Eve Desrosiers).

“Patriot Games: Sport in the Promotion of National Unity in Post-Genocide Rwanda”.

 

3. Chapters

“Re-education for Reconciliation: Participant Observations on the Ingando Camps”. In Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf, eds. Reconstructing Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2010.

Rwanda”. In Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber and Klaas van Walrave, eds. Africa Yearbook 5: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2008. Leiden: Brill. In Press.

““That is not what we authorised you to do…”: Access and government interference in highly politicised research environments”. In Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martín-Ortega and Johanna Herman, eds. Surviving Field Research: Working in violent and difficult situations. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 108-124.

Chapters Under Editorial Review

The Darker Side of Transitional Justice: The Power Dynamics behind Rwanda's Gacaca Courts. Book chapter for the Yearbook of Legal and Political Philosophy, eds. Melissa S. Williams and Rosemary Nagy.

In Progress

“Teaching Individual Resistance to Mechanisms of Oppression: Case Studies from Kenya and Rwanda”. Book chapter for Teaching Africa in the 21st Century Classroom, ed. Brandon Lundy

 

4. Reports and other publications

"Developing Ethical Guidelines for Researchers working in Post-Conflict Environments. Research Report prepared for the Program on States and Security, City University of New York. December 2008.

Inside Rwanda's gender revolution (with Erin Baines and Stephen Brown), The Guardian Online, October 13, 2008.

Policy Brief. “Re-Engaging the Post-Genocide Government of Rwanda: Canada’s Role”. March 2007.

Individual Lived Experience with Democratisation in Post-Genocide Rwanda”, Human Security Bulletin, 3 (4), November/December 2004.

Workshop Report (with Erin K. Baines and Zoë Wilson). “Civil Society Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: 10 Years after the Rwandan Genocide”. April 2004.

 

5. Book reviews

After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond. By Phil Clark and Zachary D. Kaufman, eds. African Studies Review, forthcoming April 2010.

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. By Stephen Kinzer. African Studies Review, 52(1), April 2009, pp. 194-196.

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. By Stephen Kinzer. Canadian Journal of International Affairs, 64(1), Winter 2008/09, pp. 304-306.

Liberal Democracy and its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Progress. Edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo. African Studies Review, 49(3), December 2006, pp. 165-166.

Negotiating Local Knowledge: Identity and Power in Development. Edited by Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker and Paul Sillitoe. European Journal of Development Research 18(1), 2006, pp. 173-174.

 

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