Anatomy of Genocide and Intra-State Conflict

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course employs the genocide in Rwanda and the conflict that ravaged northern Uganda over a twenty year period to explore the histories that precipitated genocide in Rwanda and conflict in northern Uganda. Through this, the course casts a critical lens upon the political institutions of the modern world, and critiques popular reductionist explanations that regard conflicts in Africa as driven simply by primordial ethnic tension.