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Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region

Authored by: Patricia O. Daley

Categories: Human Rights
Sub-Categories: Mass Atrocities, National Security Forces and Armed Groups
Country: Burundi
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2008
Citation: Daley, Patricia O. Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

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Executive Summary

Burundi, like Rwanda, Congo, and Uganda, is linked to patterns of recurrent genocidal violence that have shaped events in the African Great Lakes region. In Gender and Genocide in Burundi, Patricia O. Daley argues that sexual patterns of violence have become more pervasive as male and Western-dominated cultures of impunity devalue lives across the region. In her view, only a revised feminist-historical approach to understanding violence and a reformed peace process, on local as well as international levels, will bring genocide to an end. By bringing gender to bear, Daley breaks down divisions at places where violence or social injustice has been reproduced in the past and illustrates how the protracted nature of oppression, warfare, and endemic violence can come to an end. Daley's unique insight into the politics of genocide shows how a new gender-oriented paradigm that emphasizes rights and humanity can make "never again" a reality.