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dc.contributor.advisorSmith-Simonsen, Christine
dc.contributor.authorUgelvik, Mattias
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-16T05:36:03Z
dc.date.available2023-06-16T05:36:03Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-14en
dc.description.abstractThis is a historiographical thesis that analyzes the literature written about the massive human rights violations perpetrated in Rwanda in the 1990s. This violence includes the genocide against Tutsis in 1994, in which the majority of Tutsis within Rwanda were killed, as well as crimes against Hutus perpetrated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the scale and nature of which are difficult to establish. The RPF occupied the country during the genocide and has remained in power since. There are two contending versions of history written about Rwanda, one favourable to the RPF, and one hostile to it. I call these camps Friends and Enemies of Rwanda, respectively. In between these contending camps lies the scholarly literature, which is more nuanced. The main focus of this thesis is not the scholarly literature, but rather the two antagonistic camps. The thesis has both a qualitative and a quantitative part. In the qualitative part, I analyze the literature to show what characterizes these two camps by discussing some of the main controversies in Rwandan history; I also show where scholars stand with respect to both camps. In the quantitative part I analyze the patterns of references between the most important authors on Rwanda, and attempt to categorize the literature with citation network analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29415
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDHIS-3900
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070::Ikke-europeisk/-vestlig historie: 085en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070::Non-European/Non-Western history: 085en_US
dc.titleSources of violence: Analyzing the literature on the Rwandan tragedy in the 1990sen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveno
dc.typeMaster thesisen


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